A Word on AI #1 — January 7th 2018

Why this?

My hypothesis is that simply writing down what caught my eyes, week after week, will help me improve and educate myself. My two goals in sharing this are: 1/ inspire you to do the same exercise, 2/ share resources that are tremendously impactful in the way I see the world change.

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Best of what I consumed this week

Venture Beat — “Human involvement is still a necessary component of valuable AI” — Let’s pretend we all start the year and pretend as if people still mater. AI exists but it is still early stage and people play a central role into designing and implementing well thought AI algorithms.

Techcrunch — “Rubikloud scores $37 million investment to bring intelligence to retail industry” — A retail AI startup from Toronto raised a $37mm series B to help retailers to manage promotions and loyalty programs. Interesting move for Intel, leading the round through its CVC, to refinforce its presence in the Internet Of Things market.

Forbes — “ Predictions For Artificial Intelligence In 2018” — in 2 words, AI will change the way we work and AI will be subject to more scrutiny. As we broadly agree, we do feel it is still too early for AI to transform in society in 2018.

Xinhuanet — “Beijing to build technology park for developing artificial intelligence” — China is bullish on AI. With a $2b investment in a tech park, this is only one of the many initiatives deployed by China to attract AI talents and create innovative companies. Definitely more of that coming in 2018…