Object AI

28/03/2017

"WhatsApp was able to build a global messaging system that served 900M users with just 50 engineers. This “WhatsApp effect” is now happening in AI. Software tools like Theano and TensorFlow, combined with cloud data centers for training, and inexpensive GPUs for deployment, allow small teams of engineers to build state-of-the-art AI systems."
-- https://blog.ai-academy.com/i-reverse-engineered-a-500m-artificial-intelligence-company-in-one-week-heres-the-full-story-d067cef99e1c

Why I did that:

05/03/2017

"When you focus on a vertical, you can find high level customer needs that we can meet better with AI, or new needs that can’t be met without AI. These are terrific business opportunities, but they require much more business savvy and subject matter expertise."
-Cross

http://www.bradfordcross.com/blog/2017/3/3/five-ai-startup-predictions-for-2017

1. Bots go bust 2. Deep learning goes commodity 3. AI is cleantech 2.0 for VCs 4. MLaaS dies a second death 5. Full stack vertical AI startups actually work With AI in a full-fledged mania, 2017 will be the year of reckoning. Pure hype trends will reveal themselves to

02/03/2017

Finish him! AI can now play Mortal Kombat better than you

http://www.wired.co.uk/article/ai-play-mortal-kombat-snes-games

27/02/2017

Google Assistant, its AI-based personal helper, rolls out to Nougat and Marshmallow handsets

https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/26/google-assistant-its-ai-based-personal-helper-rolls-out-to-nougat-and-marshmallow-handsets/

27/02/2017

Britain Banks on Robots, Artificial Intelligence to Boost Growth

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-26/britain-banks-on-robots-artificial-intelligence-to-boost-growth

Britain is betting that the rise of the machines will boost the economy as the country exits the European Union.

24/02/2017

Our founder, James, practicing his demo day pitch earlier today.

23/02/2017

Microsoft's new AI can code by stealing bits of code from other software

https://goo.gl/qUW3xn

23/02/2017

ONE MORE DAY til the Zenith.AI Investor Day, where we will demo the technology developed at Object AI, so you see for yourself how our Advanced Computer Vision algorithms can make photo editing an effortless task.

For those are able to attend in person, at satellite events or watch the lifestream, please sign up here:

https://docs.google.com/a/snapdisco.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdVh9A7rNEyQnxjTkB3NJRYlwmVbvEwb2xPZD9rTOn4BI3_ag/viewform

Held on February 24, 2017, 3-6pm HKT (GMT+8) here in Hong Kong. More specific details about the event to follow via email. Please fill in some information for us below.

22/02/2017

Using a novel approach for computing real-time game strategy, engineers have developed an artificial Ms. Pac-Man player that chomps the existing high score for computerized play.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/01/170123111533.htm

21/02/2017

Your Phone Can Recognise Your Friends As Well As You Can. We dive into how this is possible and the possibility holds for our day to day life.

How do you recognise your friends, or tell them apart? You could point out features like brown hair or a square jaw, but that only narrows…

20/02/2017

Artificial intelligence ethics experts argue that current safety regulations do not plan for autonomous systems and are therefore ill-equipped to ensure that autonomous systems will perform safely and reliably. What do you think?

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/01/170126124115.htm

Autonomous systems -- like driverless cars -- perform tasks that previously could only be performed by humans. In a new article, artificial intelligence ethics experts argue that current safety regulations do not plan for these systems and are therefore ill-equipped to ensure that autonomous systems...

20/02/2017

"There is no reason and no way that a human mind can keep up with an artificial intelligence machine by 2035."

-Gray Scott