Archives for 2018

What does it take to raise seed funding as an AI-first SaaS startup? (Seed Edition —the 0.9 version ) Sep 30, 2018 At Point Nine, we have been focused on investing in SaaS companies and have been fortunate to work with several generations of successful businesses in this segment over the years. Since joining the firm […]

The retail landscape is rapidly changing as consumers expect more convenience and better service across the entire retail customer journey. Research shows that 98% of retailers think their stores have to remove friction to survive in a new competitive landscape where seamless in-store experiences are expected. In the e-commerce world, companies like Stitch Fix, Warby […]

Awesome, not awesome. #Awesome“In a hospital in China, human doctors diagnosed a number of patients in a vegetative state as unlikely to ever wake up — but a second opinion from an algorithm said they would recover in less than a year. In seven cases, the algorithm was right. The AI algorithm, developed by the Chinese Academy of […]

Awesome, not awesome. #Awesome“…a recent paper made the case that AI advances could help decrease global health-care discrepancies, particularly for people who live far away from urban centers. Researchers from Georgetown University and the nonprofit Washington Institute for Health Sciences noted that maternal mortality rate (often used as a signal for overall quality of health-care availability), […]

…expect the arms race to continue Aug 27, 2018 Source Awesome, not awesome. #Awesome“In 2014, Flint began getting water from Flint River rather than the Detroit water system. Mistreatment of the new water supply, combined with old lead pipes, created contaminated water for residents…Records that could be used to figure out which houses might be affected by […]

The autonomous systems piloting self-driving cars will make decisions that have life-and-death consequences. There is little room for error in their ability to classify and track objects in a vehicle’s vicinity. That’s why in developing vehicle perception systems, curating high-quality training and validation datasets is critical. For example, seeing in training data how a pedestrian […]

…the survival rate of dark skinned people will decrease. Aug 20, 2018 Source Awesome, not awesome. #Awesome“A team at DeepMind, based in London, created an algorithm… to enable a computer to analyse optical coherence tomography (OCT), a high resolution 3D scan of the back of the eye… [a]rtificial intelligence performed as well as two of the […]

Editor’s note: This is the third in a series of three posts outlining the findings of research our in-house computer vision team conducted regarding the accuracy of popular open-source object detection models for detecting vehicles, as measured by pixel level accuracy. Before diving in, be sure to check out part one and part two to […]