Cynopsis:AI

October 10, 2018

Welcome to the inaugural Cynopsis: AI special report. This will be the first of many editorial offerings from Cynopsis covering the dynamic area of artificial intelligence to help you best position your business (and yourself) for the incredible opportunities already awaiting. Our aim is to isolate the trends and challenges around AI and machine learning so that we can solve them and all move forward, successfully. Look for announcements soon on AI special reports, events and other offerings for our Cynopsis community. We'd love to hear your ideas and comments. Contact Cynopsis Publisher Robbie Caploe.

Upcoming Events

October 22-24: Washington DC GPU Tech Conference

November 28-29: Santa Clarita, CA: AI & Big Data Expo

December 3-6: Austin, TX Intelligent Automation Week

April 15-18, 2019: New York, NY Artificial Intelligence Conference

INNOVATION

Google’s Apple-envy is showing again as it tries to out-Ai Apple Watch’s market success with the tentatively branded Google Coach. Working on its Wear OS wearables platform, Coach gathers a frightening range of data to make proactive recommendations. Expect to be pestered about better workouts, foods you need to increase, meal plans and shopping lists, even that you need to drink more water.

Elon Musk’s AI and most machine learning can drive a Tesla, but it still can’t plan strategically enough to beat pro video gamers. A five-bot team from Musk’s OpenAI research institute this week fell to a Brazilian team of human players in an exhibition match of fantasy arena game Dota 2 at this week’s massive International esports convention in Vancouver.

The eyes are the windows to robot souls, suggest Jaguar Land Rover researchers who are putting “virtual eyes” on to test vehicles. The company seeks ways that autonomous vehicles can signal pedestrians they are aware of their human presence. We mere mortals need to learn how and when to trust AI-powered bots in their midst, and having machine “eyes” that acknowledge us may be one path.

What did he say? Weird lip-syncing results have been the bane of voice dubbing in international film distribution for decades. The Max Plank Institute for Informatics has developed “Deep Video Portraits,” a proof-of-concept post-production technology that modifies eyes, nose, brows, head and mouth on a live actor to match the voiceover more precisely.

MARKETS AND M&A

Facebook wants to be an AI player and so expects to double the size of its FAIR (Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research) team, according to a recent Forbes interview with AI chief Yann LeCun. FAIR is competing directly for talent and mindshare with Google’s DeepMind project. Some FAIR work in machine learning is being applied to Facebook’s platforms much of its focus is on general AI research.

Doctor AI will see you now. The healthcare chatbot market is poised to be worth $314.3 million by 2023, according to a MarketsandMarkets report this week. Software developments in natural language processing and multilingual capabilities will lead growth in the near term. But end user functions like symptom checkers and consumer-facing personal health and medication trackers will drive market expansion farther down the road.

But infrastructure taps the brakes. Zion Market Research’s new projection of a $2.1 billion overall chatbot market by 2024 carried a warning. While AI-driven “smart machines” will drive the market beyond current rules-based bots, “the slow adoption rate, high deployment cost, and lack of expertise related to the services can restrain chatbot market,” the report states. Still, expect CAGR of 28.73% in the chatbot market between 2018 and 2024, Zion says.

LG wants AI to welcome you home in style. The electronics giant’s CEO and CTO gave LG’s first corporate keynote at IFA 2018 in Berlin to assert leadership and commitment to integrating an open AI platform across its consumer devices. Total connectivity among TV, phone, vacuums, home devices “will roll out the welcome mat by preparing the perfect environment for when you walk through the door,” said CEO Jo Seong.

MARKETING & ADVERTISING

IBM’s Watson platform is promising smarter advertising through AI. At Advertising Week in NY last week, it introduced Watson Ads Omni, which will hyper-personalize an ad by letting it interact with a user on the page in a chatbot-like fashion. Lego will launch the first campaign during Black Friday. The AI-driven ad will have been trained about 35 different Lego products in order to guide consumers to the right gift.

AI-driven copywriting platform Phrasee helped drive a 31% drop in cost-per-lead on social media ad buys for British e-commerce brand Wowcher. The Phasee system started by applying AI to crafting and testing email subject lines, which it claims helped Domino’s increase email open rates by 53%. It just expanded to social advertising, where the AI learns from past campaigns in order to generate ad copy that performs progressively better.

Apparently, human copywriters are doomed. China e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding‘s AI Copywriter lets merchant and marketing partners produce automated ads for goods they sell on Alibaba sites. They just point to links for the item and designate copy type (promotional, functional, poetic or heartwarming) and the AI does the rest. Early partners like apparel brand Esprit say AI Copywriter relieves the most tedious human tasks like adjusting copy to minor product changes.

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EXECUTIVE MOVES

JP Morgan’s Apoorv Saxena has hired Facebook’s Yang Wang as Executive Director on the bank’s AI and machine learning team.

Vilynx, the artificial intelligence company with a platform focused exclusively on media, appointed CNN/U.S. President Jon Klein as president. Klein will build out a U.S. presence for the company, which counts MSNBC, NBC News and other major broadcast media companies among the customers for its machine learning platform.

AppNexus co-founder and CEO Brian O’Kelley is stepping down and will serve in an advisory role at AT&T-owned Xandr, which bought AppNexus in June. “As Brian and I discussed the best path forward, we made the decision together that he would transition out of the daily operations of AppNexus,” wrote Xander CEO Brian Lesser in a note to employees outlining executive changes.

TODAY’S CODE-BREAKER

Pattern Recognition: The automated detection of regularities in data. It’s closely related to AI and machine learning, together with applications such as data mining and knowledge discovery in databases.

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AI CAREER OPPS

ARTIFICIAL INTELL/Accenture/NYC: Minimum 2 years of experience in developing innovative approaches and new algorithms to solve difficult business problems. Experience distilling and presenting complex concepts to a business audience as well as working in an agile methodology. Full info/apply HERE

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ENGINEER/Interactive Brokers/NYC: Develop solutions for real-world, large-scale problems using Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning; improve deep learning engine that services our brokerage clients. MS or PhD degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or related technical field. Full info/apply HERE

Sr SOFTWARE ENGINEER/ARITIFICAL INTELLIGENCE/Bloomberg LP/NYC: Write, test and maintain production-quality code. Work in a fast-paced and agile environment to deliver high-quality features to our clients. In depth knowledge oolchains (build systems, compilers, linkers, interpreters, debuggers, profilers) Full info/apply HERE

CHIEF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SCIENTIST/intelletec/Boston: solve important problems for humanity at an industrial scale. MSc or Ph.D. in Machine Learning, Statistics, Mathematics or related field. You’ll ideally have a strong academic background with prominent research that’s been recognized at leading conferences and journals. (CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ICML, NIPS) Full info/apply HERE

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE GLOBAL PROGRAM DIRECTOR/Lionbridge Technologies/Thousand Oaks CA: function as a strategic, innovative operations leader. 8-10 years’ experience in project management, program management. Prior agency, entertainment/gaming industry experience a plus. Apply HERE

REPORTER/WSJ Pro Artificial Intelligence/NEW YORK, NY: WSJ Pro Artificial Intelligence will serve execs who need to understand how those technologies can enable their businesses. Analyze how companies are adopting AI into their business strategies. Full info HERE

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SCIENTIST/Accrete.AI/NYC: Developer who can document use cases and develop component and Interaction diagrams. Min 1 year exp in Python and Full info/apply HERE

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