Are your startups discussing the repercussions of AI to the business ?

Keep reading news of mass scale layoffs due to AI. Just curious to know. What are companies actually doing with AI? Which products have they built/building, which roles are being replaced, are there are functions or departments which have become redundant? Do you have first hand knowledge of AI actually replacing someone/something?

Seeing this for a few weeks now. Noticed it when PG tweeted about how there are 100 ai startups in the batch and all are legit. That is none of then it’s phony or opportunistic. He also talked about how domain experts are building in AI and great founders. Then saw Garry Tan promoting the batch and retweeting others doing it. A couple of other partners talked about the companies they are excited about too. To me, this signals that yc isn’t getting the kind of interest they used to get and they have to promote the quality of the batch to be able to generate enough interest. For the first time in 10-15 years maybe. If they have to do it to ensure the companies are getting enough funding interest, what about startups without a brand name behind them. We will see more of these as we get close to the demo day. Most startups are just ai wrappers or agents. Not sure about the exact differentiation between them. Not clear from the descriptions or websites.

What's up with the HR-Tech folks? Anything cooking in this industry Recruitment is a 200 yr+ old industry - Why are only a few B2B startups in this space? (Zoho, GreytHR.. - Can this industry get rid of Agencies? - What USP can help in this space? Anyone who can help get insights?

5 years back, I was fortunate enough to get into IISc to study computer science. I also had a choice to study at a prestigious business school in India. I decided to go to IISc as I wanted to work in tech post my masters degree. Back then I thought, if I still wanted to go to business school, I would take it up around 5-6 years post masters. Now, it seems like AI is taking over all fields especially non-tech strategy type roles where human input can be replaced with effective code+AI in cost effective ways. Functional managerial roles are being filled with experienced engineers who have a great depth of experience building products for their companies. Where will the MBAs fit in? With AI advancing at a break neck speed many more roles will be replaced with AI. Also, the MBA curriculum seems a bit stale given the speed our world is advancing. Need some advice.

hello viners, Want to know about startups which are doing AI based solutions in the manufacturing / process industry. which are the current big names and how does the future look like?

I've been curious about whether there are any good Indian startups in the AI field that are not building "tools" like meeting summary or anything of that sort. But more like research based such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Midjourney, etc. They could be early stage or late stage, doesn't matter. Have you guys seen any around you with potential?

What is the reason for this? Lack of pay, Lack of cutting edge research?