AI Inspiration

EXTRACTS INFORMATION

EXAMPLES

• Customers are put into segments for targeted marketing. The segmentation is behavioral-based. Adobe Analytics Cloud and Salesforce with its Marketing Cloud Einstein offer this service.

• Iris.ai is an AI assistant that helps researchers find relevant scientific information and publications without them having to know the specific terms.

• AI is used for monitoring teams, customers, and assets. It is also used for supply chain mapping and vehicle tracking.

• AI detects real-world anomalies, like fights, road accidents, burglary and robbery in surveillance videos by seeing and learning from many surveillance videos with normal activities.

UNDERSTANDS WHAT IT SEES

EXAMPLES

• Players using Nintendo’s Wii and Microsoft’s Kinect for Xbox 360 play using their entire body.

• Facebook recognizes users in pictures and asks them if they would like to be tagged in newly uploaded ones.

• Stanford researchers developed an AI that identifies skin cancer as good as dermatologists.

• Reputation monitoring machines can read social media and unstructured data such as blogs, online articles, and tweets to find out what reputation a company has.

UNDERSTANDS WHAT IT HEARS

EXAMPLES

• Researchers from Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology and University of Leeds record sounds in nature over time and AI separates these to identify different animals and their number.

• The Voice-to-Text or dictation feature is standard on smart phones today.

• Apple’s Siri, Microsoft’s Cortana, Amazon’s Alexa and Google’s Assistant are examples of AI chatbots. Other chatbots are often used in customer services.

• Skype and Google translate language in real time.

CREATES

EXAMPLES

• Microsoft and Cambridge University developed the DeepCoder algorithm that produces simple code by copying and combining code from other programs.

• The Washington Post had AI write articles and tweets covering the then 2016 Olympic Games. Automated Insights and Yseop automate the writing of reports, websites, emails, articles and more based on data.

• Google’s QuickDraw recognizes your doodles. Machines area also capable of finishing your sketches.

• Multiple AI’s create music: Jukedeck creates music for videos; AI Duet creates harmonic music based on notes a person plays.

PREDICTS & OPTIMIZES

EXAMPLES

• Product recommendations on Amazon; Film recommendation on Netflix or Visionlabs; Music recommendation on Spotify or Pandora; Clothing recommendation at Stitchfix.com.

• The digital language learning service Duolingo creates personalized lesson plans.

• Uber optimizes traffic routes and recommends a price the user is most likely willing to pay.

• AI predicts credit risk of persons. This allows, for example, Zest Finance and Kabbage to accept borrowers who traditional lenders reject.

OTHER TECHNOLOGIES

EXAMPLES

• Printing products and parts, like food, organic tissue like living human skin, steel, fabric, DNA, and molecules.

• Fitness tracker on the wrist or ankle, e.g. Fitbit. Apple Watch.

• Virtual reality is the simulation of the user’s physical presence in a virtual or imaginary environment. Headsets like Oculus Rift, Samsung Gear VR, HTC Vive allow this immersion into virtual worlds.

• Warehousing and inventory drone flying through the warehouse can do a full inventory check in a day, as tested by Walmart.

AUTOMATES TASKS

EXAMPLES

• Chatbots are usually found in-app or on platforms like Kik, Facebook Messenger, Skype, and Slack.

• Trading bots are software programs that find the best deals on online auction sites. Other trading bots detect trends and trade for example in Bitcoin.

• Bots that assist people with simple tasks are Siri (Apple), Cortana (Microsoft), Alexa (Amazon), Google Now, Google Assistant and Hound.

• Household robot Aelus can bring beer from the fridge, vacuum, pick up toys and find the lost glasses. Aibo from Sony and Buddy are other household robots.

ACTS AUTONOMOUSLY

EXAMPLES

• Aidya is an autonomous hedge fund, identifying and executing trades on its own. Sentient Technologies offers autonomous financial trading as well.

• Canary.is is a home security system that learns your usual movements in the house and informs you about unusual activities. It works without human intervention.

• Waymo, Google’s driverless car company, lets cars drive around the Phoenix area without a human inside.

• Sony’s pet robot Aibo with AI can run toward its owner, detect smiles, words of praise and remembers what actions please the owner. Its eyes display diverse expressions.