🤖 [CITY.AI] - Democracy, Business & Startups

By City AI • Issue #16 • View online

Current state of NLP

Very clever Siri…

This week: how will democracy react to the AI revolution? Meet the 50 companies leading it. But seriously, read how Alexa is involved in a murder case. On applied AI, read into the best use cases to date and view McKinsey’s 120 machine learning business ideas. Next: ever wondered how people interact with a chatbot? Meet the awesome Mica: the Hipster Cat Bot.

And have an amazing start of the week!

What made buzz this week

Will democracy survive AI?

We are in the middle of a technological upheaval that will transform the way society is organized. We must make the right decisions now

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50 companies leading the AI revolution

A look at the 50 most promising global startups working with artificial intelligence and bringing the field to a next level

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Murder case with Alexa

Opinion: An Arkansas legal case is testing whether Amazon can be forced to share information collected by Alexa with law enforcement.

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Applied Artificial Intelligence

5 facts of users chatting with a cat

Meet Mica, the Hipster Cat Bot. The amazing team behind Mica in Vienna managed to analyse behaviour of 100.000 users

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AI use cases

When talking about AI, the use cases often focus on success stories on chatbots in enterprises, but often overlook the failures and complex processes.

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120 machine learning business ideas

Machine learning is on the edge of revolutionising these 12 sectors. Look at 120 interesting business ideas put together by McKinsey

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General AI Challenge Update

The general AI challenge is going strong - with more than 190 signups and multiple events, we reflect on the New York meetup:

Tomas Mikolov, Research Scientist at Facebook AI Research and also member of the Challenge Advisory Board, was the speaker of the night and talked about Communication-based General Artificial Intelligence. You can find Tomas’ presentation here.

The GoodAI team’s presentation about the Challenge is here.