One of the biggest confusions about “Artificial Intelligence” is that it is a very vague term. That’s because Artificial Intelligence or AI is a term that was coined back in 1955 with extreme hubris. AI is over half a century old and carries too much baggage. For a very long time, AI was dominated by Symbolists, those who championed rule-based systems that had “Zero … [Read more...] about The 13 Competing Tribes In Artificial Intelligence
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5 Key Investment Opportunities For Data-Driven Healthcare
We have seen a revolution in the healthcare industry in recent years — ehealth to mhealth, influx of genomic data, and the Affordable Care Act just to name a few. Our fund, Eleven Two Capital, has invested in a number of breakthrough technology companies in this revolution. We wanted to organize thoughts in the following investment areas, reflect on how we see them unfold, … [Read more...] about 5 Key Investment Opportunities For Data-Driven Healthcare
These 12 AI Companies Are Transforming Retail & E-Commerce
Retail e-commerce is one of the biggest revenue making sectors of the enterprise and if you don’t know that already take a quick look at Alibaba and Amazon. Online shopping is yet another sector that is slowly and surely being transformed by AI and scientific breakthroughs have opened the doors for vast amounts of data to be leveraged in the retail market. This big data makes … [Read more...] about These 12 AI Companies Are Transforming Retail & E-Commerce
How To Solve The Memory Challenges Of Deep Neural Networks
Memory is one of the biggest challenges in deep neural networks (DNNs) today. Researchers are struggling with the limited memory bandwidth of the DRAM devices that have to be used by today's systems to store the huge amounts of weights and activations in DNNs. DRAM capacity appears to be a limitation too. But these challenges are not quite as they seem. Computer … [Read more...] about How To Solve The Memory Challenges Of Deep Neural Networks
Five Distractions For Artificial Intelligence
One of the main arguments the Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari makes in Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind is that mankind differs from other species because we can cooperate flexibly in large numbers, united in cause and spirit not by anything real, but by the fictions of our collective imagination. Examples of these fictions include gods, nations, money, and human … [Read more...] about Five Distractions For Artificial Intelligence
4 Approaches To Natural Language Processing & Understanding
In 1971, Terry Winograd wrote the SHRDLU program while completing his PhD at MIT. SHRDLU features a world of toy blocks where the computer translates human commands into physical actions, such as “move the red pyramid next to the blue cube.” To succeed in such tasks, the computer must build up semantic knowledge iteratively, a process Winograd discovered was brittle and … [Read more...] about 4 Approaches To Natural Language Processing & Understanding
5 Secrets Your Tweets Reveal About You
Big data firms like Cambridge Analytica made headlines when they claimed to sway Election 2016 results by deducing personality traits from social media profiles and third-party data firms and serving highly manipulative ads to sway public opinion. Leveraging a trove of data points - such as your shopping habits, magazine subscriptions, Facebook likes, and up to 5000 other … [Read more...] about 5 Secrets Your Tweets Reveal About You
Understanding The Limits Of Deep Learning
Artificial intelligence has reached peak hype. News outlets report that companies have replaced workers with IBM Watson and algorithms are beating doctors at diagnoses. New A.I. startups pop up every day and claim to solve all your personal and business problems with machine learning. Ordinary objects like juicers and wifi routers suddenly advertise … [Read more...] about Understanding The Limits Of Deep Learning
How 26 Top Marketing Executives Use Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming all digital industries and marketing is no exception. We asked 26 top marketing executives and entrepreneurs to share how they’ve leveraged A.I. and machine learning technologies to improve their products, simplify their customers’ lives, and address the top pain points in the industry. 1. Eric Stahl, SVP at … [Read more...] about How 26 Top Marketing Executives Use Artificial Intelligence
How AI Can Solve The Top 3 Pain Points In Marketing
3,874. That’s how many companies are featured on Scott Brinker’s behemoth 2016 Marketing Technology Landscape Supergraphic, which drives home the challenge of navigating the marketing industry. "Marketing has the unique challenge of not having a typical stack or process. If you look into any Fortune 500 company, they will have hundreds of products that they are … [Read more...] about How AI Can Solve The Top 3 Pain Points In Marketing