Category Archives: AI
Why Enterprises Use AI and for What
HT: Raconteur
Google: Self-Driving Cars are Both 3 and 30 Years Away
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uj-rK8V-rik?rel=0] IEEE Spectrum: In 2011, soon after Google first told the world about the robocars it had secretly been developing, it promised that the vehicles would be able to “drive anywhere a car can legally drive.” Its timeframe for … Continue reading
The Robots Are Coming: Funding and Spending Doubling
CB Insights: Funding to private robotics companies nearly doubled in 2015, reaching a record high in deals and dollars… Our robotics category excludes drones, but includes robotics companies focused on process and manufacturing automation, agricultural automation, surgical applications, and personal/social robots. Together, … Continue reading
The Brute Force of AlphaGo
David Silver, Google DeepMind: The search base at Go is too enormous and too vast for a brute force approach to have any chance of succeeding… The search process itself is not based on brute force, more on something akin … Continue reading
32 Artificial Intelligence Startups In Healthcare
CB Insights: We identified 32 companies that are already applying machine learning techniques and predictive analytics to reduce drug discovery times, provide virtual assistance to patients, and diagnose ailments by processing medical images, among other things. The 32 startups on … Continue reading
3 AI programs to talk at TED 2020: $5 million competition announcement
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tG0K5vd4jsY?rel=0] Apply here
Beyond Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, and Google: Intelligent Assistants Landscape
VB: Ever since Apple’s Siri heralded the age of intelligent assistants (IAs) four years ago — followed by Microsoft, Google, Microsoft, and Facebook — pundits have complained that intelligent assistant technology isn’t living up to its promise… In 2015, the … Continue reading
The History of Artificial Intelligence (Video)
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGZx5GAUPys]
Posted in AI, Misc
Leave a comment
A Reasonable Discussion of Deep Learning’s Great Expectations
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aygSMgK3BEM?rel=0] Luke Hewitt: I have no doubt that the next few years will see neural networks turn their attention to yet more tasks, integrate themselves more deeply into industry, and continue to impress researchers with new superpowers. This is … Continue reading
Posted in AI, deep learning, Misc
Leave a comment
The Machine Learning Landscape
Shivon Zilis: Most of these machine intelligence startups take well-worn machine intelligence techniques, some more than a decade old, and apply them to new data sets and workflows. It’s still true that big companies, with their massive data sets and … Continue reading
Posted in AI, Machine Learning, Misc
Leave a comment