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Meet the AI Overlords that will Rule your Future

The 9 companies that will dominate AI. Artificial Intelligence or AI, it is said by many, will be man’s last invention. Why? Because AI is more than just hardware and software, AI will allow machines to learn. This machine learning will allow programs to make decisions and to think on their own. They will be able to iterate themselves, through trial and error, to perfection.

But there are only 9 companies that will dominate this potentially huge industry. These are the companies you should either try to work for, associate yourself with, or invest in.

Alibaba are the third largest ecommerce company in the world. They are investing $15B in global research labs in multiple countries dedicated to AI innovations. Their newest chatbot can understand human emotions, and respond accordingly, including alerting service reps to intervene. They have 200 AI powered robots in automated warehouses that process one million shipments per day. And they are creating AI robots in the hospitality sector that can deliver meals and laundry to guests.

Amazon is the largest ecommerce company in the world. Amazon has expanded Alexa to Amazon Lex. Amazon Polly, and Amazon Rekognition. These technologies are involved in text to speech conversion, and face recognition using artificial intelligence. Amazon is creating AI powered self-guided drones that can deliver products weighing as much as an unbelievable – one ton. They use ai to determine product search rankings, recommendations, and ad placement.

Apple – has Siri ai voice assistant. They have invested in a range of AI startups, including Emotient, which produces facial recognition technology, Vocal IQ, which provides a platform for voice interfaces, and Silk Labs, which makes AI software for consumer devices. Apple CEO, Tim Cook announced that they will be investing $10 Billion building data centers just in the U.S.

Chinese tech company Baidu is the largest provider of Chinese language internet search. They are the most advanced AI company in China. They use facial recognition technology in their main offices instead of the typical company ID cards. They have a voice assistant called DuerOS that has accumulated more conversation-based skill sets than Alexa, Siri or Cortana. In addition, they have invested in deep learning in the medical field and self-driving cars

Facebook has been forced to be a player in AI. With 2.3 billion regular users, about a one third of all humanity, it is impossible to have every post and image reviewed by humans. So they are using deep learning software to monitor their content. Mike Schroepfer, the company’s chief technology officer, says the technology is the only way to prevent bad actors from taking advantage of the service. Facebook’s AI software not only monitors content, but it also chooses the content that appears in the Facebook News Feed, automatically tags photos, and power the ad-targeting software.

Google has been the most aggressive company in the world on AI research, creating everything from self-driving cars, to software that can recognize cats. They are even developing their own line of machine learning chips. CEO Sundar Pichai said, “In the long run, we’re evolving in computing from an ‘AI-first’ world,” Google bought DeepMind in 2014, which is AI startup. DeepMind has since been used to defeat champion players of the board game “GO” Google’s biggest application of AI is to power the algorithm in its flagship search engine. In addition Google Assistant uses AI for natural language processing.

IBM’s most notable investment in AI is Watson, a a deep learning program that can answer questions posed in natural language by extract meaning from photos, videos, text and speech. Watson was popularly introduced to the world on the U.S. game show Jeopardy, where it handily beat to of its all time best human players. IBM are investing $240M over 10 years in Watson alone. The technology behind Watson has gained traction in industries from insurance to healthcare.

Microsoft bought five companies built on AI technology in 2018 alone. They launched a venture capital fund called Microsoft Ventures dedicated to fund AI startups. Satya Nadella, their CEO has a vision that AI can solve many of the world’s problems. Current applications of AI are used to power chatbots in Skype, analyze data in Office 365, build apps in Azure, support interaction with Cortana, and to power its search results in Bing similar to the way Google does it. They have elite talent on artificial intelligence research.

Tencent is a Chinese holding company involved in internet technology and AI. They are the company behind the WeChat app, China’s biggest social media platform. They are focused on four areas for AI application: content, social, online games and cloud services. They claim that over a hundred Tencent products, including WeChat and QQ their instant messaging app use AI technology,

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