Category Archives: AI
Artificial Intelligence: Most Active Corporate Investors
CB Insights: Artificial intelligence dealmaking has exploded recently, leaping to a new quarterly record of over 140 deals in Q1’16. Corporates and their venture capital groups are among the most active investors in this category (tech corporates have also been … Continue reading
Artificial Intelligence: An Overview by Eric Horvitz, Microsoft Research (Video)
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uHavVE018M?rel=0] Definition of AI: Study of computational mechanisms underlying thoughts and intelligent behavior. “AI Winter” has been very productive. I tell researchers on our team that if you can just build the thumb and forefinger into computational systems, you … Continue reading
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Artificial Intelligence Startups in Healthcare
CB Insights: The startups [above] have raised more than $870M in aggregate funding since 2011. This year has seen some notable deals involving companies on the map: New York-based AiCure raised $12.3M in Series A funding and London-based health services … Continue reading
Why Enterprises Use AI and for What
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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
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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