When you hear about Artificial Intelligence (or AI, in cyber parlance), you may picture Ex Machina, Azimov's robots, Hal 2001, R2D2, Terminator, Siri, Alexa, Cortana, Watson or Google Brain.
You may also recall flashy news headlines about AI predicting specific health events and outcomes more accurately than a doctor, navigating better than humans, outperforming government workers, bankers, trial jurors and psychologists.
But there are many other new ideas out there.
You may also recall flashy news headlines about AI predicting specific health events and outcomes more accurately than a doctor, navigating better than humans, outperforming government workers, bankers, trial jurors and psychologists.
But there are many other new ideas out there.
This April, Y combinator's online startup school opened its doors to about 3,000 companies from 141 countries. 169 of them indicated "Artificial intelligence" as their industry and 62 of them "graduated" with a video-pitch, although many more mentioned AI technologies in one way or another. What are young startups working on?
Digital assistants and web robots (aka bots) are eating the world. Millennials are willing to rely on chatbots. Two out of five trust bots more than humans (from 30% in health-related information to 74% in regards to food). Most would prefer chatbots for communication compared to texting and email, phone calls and face-to-face interaction. The total number of messaging and voice chatbot startups in the class of 2017 was close to 50.
The new generation is thinking ahead creating chatbot factories, nurseries, marketplaces - where bots can be auctioned off - and schools - where you can feel assured your bot is cared for. Schools for humans are also proposed - to learn how to better understand your bots.
The new generation is thinking ahead creating chatbot factories, nurseries, marketplaces - where bots can be auctioned off - and schools - where you can feel assured your bot is cared for. Schools for humans are also proposed - to learn how to better understand your bots.
By 2020 30% of mobile/web browsing sessions will be done without a screen. Many startup school founders are looking at AI as an interface - to buy and sell (fashion items, stocks trading and sports betting, real estate, whatever), get help with mundane work, learn new languages, improve our personal style, save the planet, read news, stay energized, eat well and have a better sleep.
One stealth startup even wanted to convert anything we touch to artificial intelligence, Asgard proposed to use AI technology to discover technologies, and Nudge to motivate learning artificial intelligence - getting closer to the 3rd generation AI.
Perhaps the next step is to create artificial intelligence tools to develop the next generation artificial intelligence tools.
The future is AI, but we are still competitive.
One stealth startup even wanted to convert anything we touch to artificial intelligence, Asgard proposed to use AI technology to discover technologies, and Nudge to motivate learning artificial intelligence - getting closer to the 3rd generation AI.
Perhaps the next step is to create artificial intelligence tools to develop the next generation artificial intelligence tools.
The future is AI, but we are still competitive.
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