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AI 100: The Artificial Intelligence Startups Redefining Industries

Today, CB Insights unveiled the second annual AI 100 — a list of 100 of the most promising private companies applying artificial intelligence algorithms across 25+ industries, from healthcare to cybersecurity — at the A-Ha! conference in San Francisco. Read more.

The Most Exciting Artificial Intelligence Applications in Media

Artificial intelligence (AI) has generated enormous hype in recent months, but opinions about the real impact of technologies like machine translation, autonomous vehicles, natural language processing, and computer vision vary widely. Read more.

Introducing ML-Agents v0.2: Curriculum Learning, new environments, and more

The Machine Learning team at Unity is happy to announce the release of a new version of Unity Machine Learning Agents – v0.2 Beta! With this release, we are improving the toolkit on all fronts… Read more.

Robotics and automation to replace 800 million human workers by 2030, says new report

The global effects of robotics and automation technologies is forecast to include the removal of as many as 800 million people from their jobs by 2030, according to a new report. Seventy million of them will be in the US. Read more.

Tracking Dolphins With Algorithms You Might Find on Facebook

Keeping track of dolphins is a slippery, patchy process. First, you must procure time on a ship or aircraft, which is expensive. After that, what you see depends on uncontrollable factors like weather, ocean conditions and whether the creatures happen to be hanging out at the sea’s surface. Read more.

The Merge

A popular topic in Silicon Valley is talking about what year humans and machines will merge (or, if not, what year humans will get surpassed by rapidly improving AI or a genetically enhanced species). Most guesses seem to be between 2025 and 2075. Read more.

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The Time is Now: Why You Shouldn’t Wait to Invest in AI

While no one can offer a crystal clear vision of all that the future holds, it has been our mission at BootstrapLabs to provide both a point of view and a toolkit for you to make the most of it. Here’s why investing in artificial intelligence is a great move to make right now. Read more.

2 Berkeley grads are using AI to make stock-buying decisions — and it could change investing forever

When Art Amador worked in private wealth management at Fidelity, his clients expected him to know absolutely everything. Whether it related to global markets, macroeconomic factors… Read more.

51 Artificial Intelligence (AI) Predictions For 2018

It is somewhat safe to predict that AI will continue to be at the top of the hype cycle in 2018. But the following 51 predictions also envision it becoming more practical and useful, automating some jobs and augmenting many others… Read more.

Artificial Intelligence Index – 2017 Annual Report

Artificial Intelligence has leapt to the forefront of global discourse, garnering increased attention from practitioners, industry leaders, policymakers, and the general public. The diversity of opinions and debates gathered from news articles this year illustrates just how broadly AI is being… Read more.

MIT Looks at How Humans Sorta Drive in Sorta Self-Driving Cars

Almost half of Americans will hop in their cars for a Thanksgiving trip this year. But if you were being very precise—if you were a team of Massachusetts of Technology researchers who study human-machine interactions—you wouldn’t say that all those Americans are “driving,” exactly. Read more.

The Need for Artificial Intelligence: Increasing Global and Human Complexity

Despite the desire to return to supposedly simpler times, we cannot turn back. Our world is vastly different now compared to even a few decades ago. Because of phenomenal advances in medicine, housing, transportation… Read more.

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AI World

AI World Conference & Expo is coming to Boston December 11-13. Hear from 120+ executives in more than 70 sessions, including IBM Watson, Monsanto, Vodafone, Forrester, Facebook, Dun & Bradstreet, Goldman Sachs, Nielsen and more.

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How Reuters’s Revolutionary AI System Gathers Global News

Reuters is scooping its rivals using intelligent machines that mine Twitter for news stories. Read more.

Software 2.0

I sometimes see people refer to neural networks as just “another tool in your machine learning toolbox”. They have some pros and cons, they work here or there, and sometimes you can use them to win Kaggle competitions. Read more.

Why Decentralized Artificial Intelligence Will Reinvent The Industry As We Know It

Until recently, the contemporary AI industry had been built around a centralized distribution paradigm where machine learning solutions are delivered as a part of cloud-based APIs… Read more.

Search and Rescue Robots – Current Applications on Land, Sea, and Air

Every year over 100,000,000 people are also affected by natural disasters. Government, companies, and aid organizations are all working to keep these tragic deaths as low as possible. One tool they have turned to for help in recent years is search and rescue robots. Read more.

Machine Learning in Healthcare: Expert Consensus from 50+ Executives

The last few years have yielded a tremendous amount of attention at the intersection of AI and healthcare, from DeepMind’s partnership with the UK’s National Health Service to IBM’s continued pushes into areas of genomics and drug discovery. Read more.

Facebook to Use Artificial Intelligence to Help Prevent Suicides

Facebook is turning to artificial intelligence to detect if someone might be contemplating suicide. Facebook already has mechanisms for flagging posts from people thinking about harming themselves. Read more.

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AI World Conference & Expo is coming to Boston December 11-13. Hear from 120+ executives in more than 70 sessions, including IBM Watson, Monsanto, Vodafone, Forrester, Facebook, Dun & Bradstreet, Goldman Sachs, Nielsen and more.

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Join the BootstrapLabs Applied AI Insiders Series: FinTech

The financial sector represents trillions of dollars in annual spending, most of which goes to technology, security, and infrastructure.

Speaker lineup:

  • Nicolai Wadstrom, Founder, BootstrapLabs
  • Will Summerlin, Founder and CEO, Pinn
  • Cathrine Andersen, Co-founder, Roger.ai

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Join the BootstrapLabs Applied AI Insiders Series: FinTech

The financial sector represents trillions of dollars in annual spending, most of which goes to technology, security, and infrastructure.

Speaker lineup:

  • Nicolai Wadstrom, Founder, BootstrapLabs
  • Will Summerlin, Founder and CEO, Pinn
  • Cathrine Andersen, Co-founder, Roger.ai

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Welcome to the Era of the AI Coworker

Last fall, Google Translate rolled out a new-and-improved artificial intelligence translation engine that it claimed was, at times, “nearly indistinguishable” from human translation. Read more.

While You Prepare to Eat Turkey, the FCC Reveals Its Plan to Dismantle Net Neutrality

As America winds down for Thanksgiving, there has been little time for pumpkin pie at the Federal Communications Commission: the Washington Post reports that the organization has published its final plan to dismantle… Read more.

Stanford Algorithm Can Diagnose Pneumonia Better Than Radiologists

Stanford researchers have developed a machine-learning algorithm that can diagnose pneumonia from a chest x-ray better than a human radiologist can. Read more.

Engineers get the feeling for robotic fingers

A robotic gripper that can screw in lightbulbs or use a screwdriver without needing to ‘see’ them or be pre-programmed to recognize them has been developed at the University of California San Diego (UCSD). Read more.

AI Can Help Hunt Down Missile Sites in China

Intelligence Agencies have a limited number of trained human analysts looking for undeclared nuclear facilities, or secret military sites, hidden among terabytes of satellite images. But the same sort of deep learning artificial intelligence that enables… Read more.

Top 15 Companies Hiring Talent for Artificial Intelligence

The average AI job commands six figures—here are the top 15 companies hiring talent right now. Read more.

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Google sibling Waymo launches fully autonomous ride-hailing service

Alphabet’s self-driving car firm beats Uber to be first to offer robot taxis without humans behind the wheel to take over in an emergency. Read more.

Ray Kurzweil on Turing Tests, Brain Extenders, and AI Ethics

Inventor and author Ray Kurzweil, who currently runs a group at Google writing automatic responses to your emails in cooperation with the Gmail team, recently talked with WIRED Editor-in-Chief Nicholas Thompson. Read more.

EY, Deloitte And PwC Embrace Artificial Intelligence For Tax And Accounting

Tax preparation, auditing, and strategy consulting are services that have historically relied on an intensive use of human capital. AI now threatens these business models. Read more.

Do Young Humans + Artificial Intelligence = Cybersecurity?

The Army is recruiting smart young soldiers to wage cyber war. But human talent is not enough. Ultimately, say experts, cyberspace is so vast, so complex… Read more.

Building A.I. That Can Build A.I.

Google and others, fighting for a small pool of researchers, are looking for automated ways to deal with a shortage of artificial intelligence experts. They are a dream of researchers but perhaps a nightmare for highly skilled computer programmers… Read more.

AI for Crime Prevention and Detection – 5 Current Applications

Companies and cities all over world are experimenting with using artificial intelligence to reduce and prevent crime, and to more quickly respond to crimes in progress. Read more.

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Announcing the BootstrapLabs Applied AI Insiders Series: FinTech

The financial sector represents trillions of dollars in annual spending, most of which goes to technology, security, and infrastructure.

Yet, the sector is seeing an unprecedented level of VC funding and potential disruption from new (and some already established) startups that are threatening the incumbents on all sides, including retail banking, individual, business, mortgage and auto loans, peer-to-peer payments, portfolio management, savings, bill payments, international wire transfers, and even money itself. Read more.

Speaker lineup:

  • Nicolai Wadstrom, Founder, BootstrapLabs
  • Will Summerlin, Founder and CEO, Pinn
  • Cathrine Andersen, Co-founder, Roger.ai

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AI World Conference & Expo is coming to Boston December 11-13. Hear from 120+ executives in more than 70 sessions, including IBM Watson, Monsanto, Vodafone, Forrester, Facebook, Dun & Bradstreet, Goldman Sachs, Nielsen and more.

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Workers Displaced by Automation Should Try a New Job: Caregiver

Sooner or later, the US will face mounting job losses due to advances in automation, artificial intelligence, and robotics. Read more.

Andrew Ng Wants a New “New Deal” to Combat Job Automation

Even if AI does not advance beyond today’s state of the art, Ng said, he believes it’s already capable of transforming all kinds of industries. Read more.

Why Montreal Has Emerged As An Artificial Intelligence Powerhouse

Yoshua Bengio is one of the foremost thinkers in a field within artificial intelligence known as artificial neural networks and deep learning. Read more.

Artificial intelligence aids materials fabrication

In recent years, research efforts such as the Materials Genome Initiative and the Materials Project have produced a wealth of computational tools for designing new materials… Read more.

Will the Next Mozart be a Robot?

Humankind has done a great deal in terms of making exquisite art, whether through its paintings, songs, or performance art. Museums are packed with such work, and ordinary people have libraries full of fantastic literary achievements… Read more.

AI World

AI World Conference & Expo is coming to Boston December 11-13. Hear from 120+ executives in more than 70 sessions, including IBM Watson, Monsanto, Vodafone, Forrester, Facebook, Dun & Bradstreet, Goldman Sachs, Nielsen and more.

Join BootstrapLabs, CEO, Nicolai Wadstrom, Fireside Chat on December 13th “Evolution of the 4th Industrial Revolution”.

Save $200 off your 2 or 3 day VIP conference pass using priority code: AIW200BSL | Register today.

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Applied Artificial Intelligence Conference 2018

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Shelley: Human-AI Collaborated Horror Stories

For centuries, across geographies, religions, and cultures, people have innovated ways of scaring each other. Creating a visceral emotion such as fear remains one of the cornerstones of human creativity. Read more.

5 AI Trends to Know in 2018

It wasn’t so long ago that artificial intelligence was reserved to the realm of science fiction according to the public. Read more.

Copyright Law Makes Artificial Intelligence Bias Worse

Last week, Motherboard discovered that one of Google’s machine learning algorithms was biased against certain racial and religious groups, as well as LGBT people. Read more.

Key considerations for building an AI platform

The promises of AI are great, but taking the steps to build and implement AI within an organization is challenging. Read more.

Google’s AI Is A “New Paradigm” That Unites Humans and Machines

In an earnings call, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai highlighted the benefits of artificial intelligence. Google got in early on AI and has since used the technology to power their Google Assistant… Read more.

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You Could Become an AI Master Before You Know It. Here’s How.

At first blush, Scot Barton might not seem like an AI pioneer. He isn’t building self-driving cars or teaching computers to thrash humans at computer games. Read more.

In New York, Self-driving Cars Get Ready to Face the Bullies

Starting next year, New Yorkers could join Silicon Valley workers and residents of cities like Phoenix, Pittsburgh, and Boston as players in a grand, growing, autonomous car experiment. Read more.

It’s Time for More Transparency in A.I.

Transparency is becoming a hot topic in Silicon Valley. Companies need transparency in hiring, firing, and promotion practices in order to facilitate diversity efforts. Read more.

Robotic underwater miners can go where humans can’t

The scene around the flooded Whitehill Yeo pit in Devon, UK, resembles a lunar landscape. Until it was abandoned just a few years ago, an endless stream of diesel trucks carried china clay out of the mine seven days a week. Read more.

Tech Giants Are Paying Huge Salaries for Scarce A.I. Talent

Nearly all big tech companies have an artificial intelligence project, and they are willing to pay experts millions of dollars to help get it done. Read more.

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Artificial Intelligence Is About the People, Not the Machines

It was about the people before AI. It will be about the people after AI. The key is understanding. Read more.

China’s Plan to ‘Lead’ in AI: Purpose, Prospects, and Problems

At this point, investors, policymakers, and even engineers might wonder where the hype ends and the reality of China’s agenda for “AI 2.0” begins. Read more.

Inside Waymo’s Secret World for Training Self-Driving Cars

An exclusive look at how Alphabet understands its most ambitious artificial intelligence project. Read more.

The Seven Deadly Sins of AI Predictions

Mistaken extrapolations, limited imagination, and other common mistakes that distract us from thinking more productively about the future. Read more.

Enterprises are the natural environment for AI deployments

With rich data sources already in place, investments in both technology and organizational change pay off. Read more.

How AI Will Change Strategy: A Thought Experiment

Close your eyes, imagine putting your fingers on the dial of your prediction machine, and, in the immortal words of Spinal Tap, turn it to eleven. Read more.

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What’s Next for Artificial Intelligence?

BootstrapLabs is pleased to announce that its annual Applied Artificial Intelligence Conference will return for the third year on April 12, 2018 in San Francisco.

#AAI18 is a must-attend event for those involved or interested in the most current progress of AI technologies and products.

The one day conference brings together the brightest and most experienced professionals in the field of AI for an immersive day of learning, discussion, and connection.

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AI Is Easy to Fool – Why That Needs to Change

As machine learning and AI increasingly embed themselves in our lives, the rewards for learning how to trick them will likely outweigh the costs. Read more.

AI In Healthcare IT Security – Why Hospitals are Targets

Healthcare organizations are particularly vulnerable against cybercriminals. How can they prepare to combat these threats? Read more.

Falling Q3 Seed Funding Could Stunt AI’s Hyped Innovation Cycle

Although dollar volume into AI startups is hitting records, it also appears the barrier to entry for AI startups to secure their initial funding may be growing. Read more.

The Artificial Intelligence Gap Is Getting Narrower

Stories about creating intelligent objects have been a part of our culture for ages. With AI, the lines between imagination and reality continue to blur. Read more.

China’s AI Awakening

The West has a lot to learn from China’s unprecedented focus on AI advancements – and it’s not just about staying ahead of the competition. Read more.

Automated Machine Learning: An Introduction

Take a look inside the world of Strategic AI. Learning how to use our technology well is as important as knowing why it’s useful. Read more.

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Announcing the Applied Artificial Intelligence Conference 2018 #AAI18

BootstrapLabs is pleased to announce that its annual Applied Artificial Intelligence Conference will return for the third year on April 12, 2018 in San Francisco.

#AAI18 is a must-attend event for those involved or interested in the most current progress of AI technologies and products.

The one day conference brings together the brightest and most experienced professionals in the field of AI for an immersive day of learning, discussion, and connection.

This year’s agenda will focus on the latest and future impact of AI applications and commercialization across a breadth of sectors, including Transportation, Healthcare, Finance, Future of Work, Cybersecurity and more.

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Colleges Are Marketing Drone Pilot Courses, but the Career Opportunities Are Murky

Hot-air balloon pilot Richard Varney typically spends his weekends transporting tourists around central Massachusetts in a huge, multicolored balloon. Read more.

Artificial Synapses Could Lead To Brainier, Super-Efficient Computers

Brains, beyond their signature achievements in thinking and problem solving, are paragons of energy efficiency. Read more.

How AI Will Keep You Healthy

An audacious Chinese entrepreneur wants to test your body for everything. But are computers really smart enough to make sense of all that data? Read more.

Farmers Should Start Using Artificial Intelligence. Here’s Why.

A team of researchers has developed an AI that can identify diseases in plants. Alongside other projects to use AI for farming and killing weeds, AI is quickly becoming a powerful tool in harvesting better crops and producing more food. Read more.

DeepMind announces ethics group to focus on problems of AI

Deepmind, Google’s London-based AI research sibling, has opened a new unit focused on the ethical and societal questions raised by artificial intelligence. Read more.

Dear CEOs: Artificial Intelligence is your biggest threat, and your biggest opportunity

It is no secret that artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to take the world by storm. But what exactly does that mean if you are a business leader? It means you need a strategy, and you need to act fast. Read more.

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Announcing the BootstrapLabs Applied AI Insiders Series: Autonomous Transportation

During the event, our speakers will be presenting on the need for new security, infrastructure, and experience in order to enable Autonomous Transportation.

Speaker lineup:

  • Ben Levy, Co-Founder, BootstrapLabs
  • Dr. Allan Steinhardt, Chief Engineer, AEye (Previously, Chief Scientist at DARPA, Chief Scientist at
  • Booz Allen).
  • Tilly Chang, Executive Director of the San Francisco County Transportation Authority
  • Chad Partridge, CEO at Metamoto, Inc.

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Dear CEOs: Artificial Intelligence is your biggest threat, and your biggest opportunity

It is no secret that artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to take the world by storm. But what exactly does that mean if you are a business leader? It means you need a strategy, and you need to act fast. Read more.

New Theory Cracks Open the Black Box of Deep Learning

Like a brain, a deep neural network has layers of neurons — artificial ones that are figments of computer memory. Read more.

Bill Gates Says We Shouldn’t Panic About Artificial Intelligence

In a recent interview, Microsoft co-founder and billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates told The Wall Street Journal he disagrees with Elon Musk’s assertions that artificial intelligence is a significant threat to humanity. Read more.

Why We Must Not Build Automated Weapons of War

Over 100 CEOs of artificial intelligence and robotics firms recently signed an open letter warning that their work could be repurposed to build lethal autonomous weapons — “killer robots.” Read more.

Billionaire tech investor: There will be a Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates of A.I.

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, worth more than $85 billion, is one of the richest men alive, according to Forbes. He was a pioneer in the software industry. Read more.

 

Coursera Co-Founder Andrew Ng: AI Shouldn’t Be Regulated As A Basic Technology

AI as a basic technology should not be regulated. It also seems impractical for the government to stop you from implementing a neural network on your laptop. Read more.

Join us during the AI Summit in San Francisco

Ben Levy, BootstrapLabs, Co-Founder will host a session about Applied AI Disruption: Investment Framework on Thursday 28 of September, during the AI Summit 2017.

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Intel has invested more than $1 billion in AI companies

Intel CEO Brian Krzanich said in an op-ed Monday that the company has invested more than $1 billion in business that are advancing the field of artificial intelligence. Read more.

Preparing for the “Augmented Workforce”

As artificial intelligence (AI) systems, robotics and cognitive tools grow in sophistication, almost every job is being reinvented, creating what many call the “augmented workforce”… Read more.

Take a look inside Alibaba’s smart warehouse where robots do 70% of the work

They can carry up to 500 kilograms above them around the warehouse floor. They have special sensors to avoid colliding into each other and they can be summoned using wifi. Read more.

Google’s AI chief thinks reports of the AI apocalypse are greatly exaggerated

John Giannandrea from Google had many great things to say about artificial intelligence at TechCrunch Disrupt SF. In particular, he thinks that people are too scared about general purpose artificial intelligence. Read more.

Salesforce to launch $50 million artificial intelligence fund

The venture wing of Salesforce.com Inc is launching a $50 million fund to invest in start-ups employing artificial intelligence, the cloud computing firm told Reuters on Tuesday. Read more.

Join us during the AI Summit in San Francisco

Ben Levy, BootstrapLabs, Co-Founder will host a session about Applied AI Disruption: Investment Framework on Thursday 28 of September, during the AI Summit 2017.

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The iPhone X’s New Neural Engine Exemplifies Apple’s Approach to AI

Apple’s new iPhone X is billed as “the future of the smartphone,” with new facial recognition and augmented reality features presented as the credentials to back up this claim. Read More.

China, Russia and the US Are in An Artificial Intelligence Arms Race

For Russia and Vladimir Putin, it is clear that planetary domination and artificial intelligence (AI) are inextricably intertwined. Read more.

10 Breakthrough Technologies – 2017 Reinforcement Learning

By experimenting, computers are figuring out how to do things that no programmer could teach them. Read more.

Getting Ready for the Future of Work

Artificial intelligence is poised to disrupt the workplace. What will the company of the future look like—and how will people keep up? Read more.

4 Crucial Roles of Artificial Intelligence in Entrepreneurship Today

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a field getting more and more attention today. Despite this fact, however, misconceptions still persist about AI. Read more.

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Do We Need a Speedometer For Artificial Intelligence?

Microsoft said last week that it had achieved a new record for the accuracy of software that transcribes speech. Read more.

Artificial Intelligence for UX – Where Bots May Beat Out Brands

Although artificial intelligence (AI) has been around for decades, the more-recent advances in ubiquitous computing, low-cost cloud services, near unlimited storage, data analytics and other innovations have caused its adoption to skyrocket. Read more.

10 Signs You’re Ready for AI — but Might Not Succeed

Since machine learning is a panacea, your company should be able to use it profitably, right? Perhaps; perhaps not. OK, I’m just kidding about the panacea: that’s just marketing hype. Read more.

AI Is About to Drastically Change

Artificial intelligence (AI) and its corresponding technology all hinge on our human understanding of what intelligence is. Read more.

According to Elon Musk, Artificial Intelligence Will Cause World War III

The entrepreneur, who’s been known to speak in hyperbole from time to time (remember that his reasoning for getting to Mars is to save humanity), dreamed up another worst-case outcome for A.I.: causing World War III. Read more.