Category Archives: AI
AI Safety and Robotics Laws (Infographic)
In July 1984, a factory robot in Jackson, Michigan, crushed a 34 year-old worker in the first ever robot-related death in the United States. The robot thus violated Issac Asimov’s First Law of Robotics, “A robot may not injure a human being or, … Continue reading
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Press Mentions of Specific AI Applications
Source: CB Insights; Last accessed 5-Jul-2016. Magister Advisors: Specific AI capabilities are particularly strategic and will create immense value to many industries. Predictive analytics, speech and image recognition are the earliest verticals enabled by AI and rightly so because of … Continue reading
A Primer on Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning from Andreesen Horowitz
[vimeo 170189199 w=640 h=360] Things are clearly progressing rapidly when it comes to machine intelligence. But how did we get here, after not one but multiple “A.I. winters”? What’s the breakthrough? And why is Silicon Valley buzzing about artificial intelligence … Continue reading
Artificial Intelligence is the New Big Data
Source: CB Insights Trends
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