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Impressions from Sam Altman’s talk in London
What drives Sam Altman is OpenAI's ability to create AGI (Artificial General Intelligence). He believes it's possible and that it's not that far. It won't look like ChatGPT, but the path to AGI passes through LLMs
Is the advent of AI humanity’s “promethean moment”?
The AI Genie is out of the bottle. Will AI deliver on its promise to become our helpful assistant, or are we underplaying the risks?
Generative AI will really take off when it moves from playful to useful
Generative AI has a lot of potential, but to become truly useful, it will have to get more specialised to complete role-specific tasks
Five Advancements Powering the Future of Content Creation
You’ve heard about the streaming wars, the cloud gaming/console wars, the rise of the creator economy. Behind all…
AI in Israel Grows Beyond Computer Vision
More than 1,200 AI startups (broadly defined) were created in Israel since 2010. 79% of which are still…
How Venture Capital Funds Leverage AI and Big Data
Venture Capitalists invest in tech, but how much tech do they actually USE in running their own business?…
Roundup of 2018 AI Predictions
In this post I round up various AI predictions, not so much the ‘eye rolling’ apocalyptic ones, but the more practical view on how will AI progress next year.
No need to mention that forecasting is not easy, and you have to take these with a big pinch of salt, but it’s still interesting to extend an imaginary line from an existing trend and see where it leads.
Israel’s Top Deep Learning Startups
This guest post by Chris Rowen of Cognite Ventures answers the question "Where are all the Israeli deep learning startups?”
Several large clusters are particularly noticeable:
* Chat-bots for engaging with customers more continuously and adaptively and coaching sales people
* All kinds of e-commerce optimization - enhanced bidding, ad campaign optimization, pricing and incentives
* Fraud protection in ecommerce including ad fraud
* Predictive maintenance in manufacturing and operations
* IT infrastructure management especially for cyber security
* All sorts of brand management and promotion
Read the full post for the list and other insights from Chris.
Emerging Machine Intelligence Clusters
Machine Intelligence (AI, ML and Deep Learning) requires a certain calibre of computer science talent. Today, this kind of talent is at the “top of the stack” of computer science. The post covers the Emerging Machine Intelligence Clusters, including US, Europe (UK, France and Germany), Canada and the growing Machine Intelligence cluster in Israel.
30 Machine Intelligence Startups to Watch in Israel
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning are eating the world. We are at a pivotal moment in technology. The proliferation of machine intelligence startups in Israel is growing - this post includes a list of 30 artificial intelligence and machine learning startups to watch.