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Artificial Intelligence Can Help Or Hurt Any Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Image via Pixabay Everyone has heard about the big potential for using artificial intelligence (AI) to expand your business, but many of the small businesses I mentor are still wary of embracing it, because they don’t understand how it works, and fear losing control and unintended consequences. Individual biases must be excluded.

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How To Be A Leader When Machines Are Smarter Than You

Startup Professionals Musings

Yet most executives are struggling with how to harness this data with artificial intelligence and machine learning, and use it to hone their intuition and improve their business leadership. Your job is thinking big enough about your future opportunities, and letting the data and machine learning do the incremental work.

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Elementary Robotics is making its quality assurance robots commercially available

TechCrunch LA

Barnehama also emphasizes that Elementary’s robots are not designed to replace every human interaction or assessment in the manufacturing process. “Machine learning paired with humans always performs better,” says Barnehama. million in financing that Elementary closed at the end of 2019.

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Using full-body MRIs, Ezra can now detect 11 cancers in men and 13 in women

TechCrunch LA

Rather than having to do painful biopsies which often come with significant side effects, Gal’s software can now be used to slash the cost for a full-body MRI scan designed to screen for 11 different types of cancer in men and another 13 types of cancer in women (who have more organs that are likely to develop cancer).

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A.I. in 2018: IBM Exec on Advances in Training, Trust, Transparency

Xconomy

[ Editor’s note: This is part of a series of posts sharing thoughts from technology leaders about 2018 trends and 2019 forecasts. Today’s artificial intelligence technologies have demonstrated they’re capable of handling specific tasks, such as identifying pictures of cats or spotting cancer in CT scans.

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Google spinoff Cartken and REEF Technology launch Miami’s first delivery robots

TechCrunch LA

The company, founded by ex-Google engineers and colleagues behind the unrequited Bookbot , was formed to develop market-ready tech in self-driving, AI-powered robotics and delivery operations in 2019, but the team has kept operations under wraps until now. This is Cartken’s first large deployment of self-driving robots on sidewalks.

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Snap’s Yellow accelerator debuts its third batch of investments

TechCrunch LA

TRASH : an app for quickly editing social video cuts using machine learning. Wabisabi Design : an augmented reality game studio focused on bit-sized titles. SketchAR : an augmented reality drawing app with social tie-ins. Stipop : a rich cross-platform chat sticker API. Veam : a social network built around AirDrop.

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