How AI Ventures Spend Their Capital: AI Startups Invested Billions In Other AI Startups in 2021
Business

How AI Ventures Spend Their Capital: AI Startups Invested Billions In Other AI Startups in 2021

AI startups are putting their cash into . . . AI startups.What’s new: Young AI companies flush with venture capital are purchasing startups to expand the range of services they can offer.

April 20, 20222 min read
How AI Ventures Spend Their Capital: AI Startups Invested Billions In Other AI Startups in 2021
Business

How AI Ventures Spend Their Capital: AI Startups Invested Billions In Other AI Startups in 2021

AI startups are putting their cash into . . . AI startups.What’s new: Young AI companies flush with venture capital are purchasing startups to expand the range of services they can offer.

April 20, 20222 min read
Your Salesbot Connection: How Marketers Use AI to Generate New Leads
Business

Your Salesbot Connection: How Marketers Use AI to Generate New Leads

Marketers are using fake social media personas — enhanced by AI-generated portraits — to expand their reach without busting their budgets.

April 13, 20221 min read
Your Salesbot Connection: How Marketers Use AI to Generate New Leads
Business

Your Salesbot Connection: How Marketers Use AI to Generate New Leads

Marketers are using fake social media personas — enhanced by AI-generated portraits — to expand their reach without busting their budgets.

April 13, 20221 min read
Who Needs Programming? Behind the rise of no-code AI.
Business

Who Needs Programming? Behind the rise of no-code AI.

The next killer AI application may be developed by someone who has never heard of gradient descent. A rising generation of software development platforms serves users who aren’t familiar with AI — and even programming.

March 23, 20222 min read
Who Needs Programming? Behind the rise of no-code AI.
Business

Who Needs Programming? Behind the rise of no-code AI.

The next killer AI application may be developed by someone who has never heard of gradient descent. A rising generation of software development platforms serves users who aren’t familiar with AI — and even programming.

March 23, 20222 min read
Investorbots: Too Good to Be True? Stock market AIs fail at real world investing.
Business

Investorbots: Too Good to Be True? Stock market AIs fail at real world investing.

Machine learning models aren’t likely to replace human stock-market analysts any time soon, a new study concluded. Researchers pinpointed key flaws in prior research into models that predict stock-market trends.

March 9, 20222 min read
Investorbots: Too Good to Be True? Stock market AIs fail at real world investing.
Business

Investorbots: Too Good to Be True? Stock market AIs fail at real world investing.

Machine learning models aren’t likely to replace human stock-market analysts any time soon, a new study concluded. Researchers pinpointed key flaws in prior research into models that predict stock-market trends.

March 9, 20222 min read
Colleague in the Machine: Your future co-worker may be powered by AI.
Business

Colleague in the Machine: Your future co-worker may be powered by AI.

Your next coworker may be an algorithmic teammate with a virtual face. WorkFusion unveiled a line of AI tools that automate daily business tasks. One thing that sets them apart is the marketing pitch: Each has a fictitious persona including a name, face, and professional résumé.

March 2, 20222 min read
Colleague in the Machine: Your future co-worker may be powered by AI.
Business

Colleague in the Machine: Your future co-worker may be powered by AI.

Your next coworker may be an algorithmic teammate with a virtual face. WorkFusion unveiled a line of AI tools that automate daily business tasks. One thing that sets them apart is the marketing pitch: Each has a fictitious persona including a name, face, and professional résumé.

March 2, 20222 min read
Remote Meter Reader: Computer vision tool reads analog gauges at industrial sites.
Business

Remote Meter Reader: Computer vision tool reads analog gauges at industrial sites.

Industrial gauges are often located on rooftops, underground, or in tight spaces — but they’re not out of reach of computer vision. The Okinawa startup LiLz Gauge provides a system that reads analog gauges and reports their output to a remote dashboard.

February 23, 20221 min read
Remote Meter Reader: Computer vision tool reads analog gauges at industrial sites.
Business

Remote Meter Reader: Computer vision tool reads analog gauges at industrial sites.

Industrial gauges are often located on rooftops, underground, or in tight spaces — but they’re not out of reach of computer vision. The Okinawa startup LiLz Gauge provides a system that reads analog gauges and reports their output to a remote dashboard.

February 23, 20221 min read
Let the Model Choose Your Outfit: Inside Amazon's AI-powered clothes stores.
Business

Let the Model Choose Your Outfit: Inside Amazon's AI-powered clothes stores.

Amazon’s first brick-and-mortar clothing store is getting ready to deliver automated outfit recommendations. The ecommerce giant announced plans to open a flagship Amazon Style location at a Los Angeles-area mall this year.

January 26, 20221 min read
Let the Model Choose Your Outfit: Inside Amazon's AI-powered clothes stores.
Business

Let the Model Choose Your Outfit: Inside Amazon's AI-powered clothes stores.

Amazon’s first brick-and-mortar clothing store is getting ready to deliver automated outfit recommendations. The ecommerce giant announced plans to open a flagship Amazon Style location at a Los Angeles-area mall this year.

January 26, 20221 min read
AI Versus the Garbage Heap: How Amazon uses AI to cut waste.
Business

AI Versus the Garbage Heap: How Amazon uses AI to cut waste.

Amazon reported long-term success using machine learning to shrink its environmental footprint. The online retailer developed a system that fuses product descriptions, images, and structured data to decide how an item should be packed for shipping.

January 12, 20222 min read

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