This AI-powered VC is smarter than your local startup cash dispensary

You don't have to sit through a lot of pitches before your will-to-live-o-meter points to "kill me now." Imagine you're a VC, sitting through your fifteenth pitch that day -- are you still going to be enthusiastic? So what happens if you could instead feed your pitch deck into a chatbot that gives you feedback, suggestions and eventually invests some money into your fledgling idea? Going through the automated pitch process is surprisingly fun, but -- spoiler alert -- at some point very early on in the process you'll realize it's a joke. A joke, sure, but like all good comedians, it does make a rather splendid point: It is harder for founders who don't fit the standard patterns to raise money -- and that's a discussion we ought to be having.