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
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 has a lot of potential, but to become truly useful, it will have to get more specialised to complete role-specific tasks
You’ve heard about the streaming wars, the cloud gaming/console wars, the rise of the creator economy. Behind all of these multi billion dollar markets vying for the consumer’s time and money, content plays a key role. Quality content makes users join, buy, and stay subscribed. But quality content is not easy to make or scale. …
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More than 1,200 AI startups (broadly defined) were created in Israel since 2010. 79% of which are still active, 6% have been acquired, and 15% have ceased to operate. With more than 667 of them raising at least one founding round. According to the latest IVC report “Leading AI Technologies in Israel” the evolution of …
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Venture Capitalists invest in tech, but how much tech do they actually USE in running their own business? From sourcing investment opportunities to choosing which ones will take off, I took a look at the latest trends in AI and ML applied on Venture. AI and Machine Learning There’s been a lot of chatter recently …
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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.
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.
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.
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.
