The industrial robotics market will nearly triple in less than 10 years
From re/code: Collaborative robots are expected to account for a third of that market.
Category: What We’re Reading
Warehouse Startup ShipBob Raises $17.5 Million Amid Expansion Push
From the Wall Street Journal: Funding round to allow company to open e-commerce distribution centers in more cities.
Artificial Intelligence Looms Larger in the Corporate World
From The Wall Street Journal: Artificial intelligence, long a subject of fanciful forecasts, is starting to enter the corporate world in a much bigger way, as costs decline and the need increases to identify patterns within ever-growing troves of business data.
Artificial intelligence is getting more powerful, and it’s about to be everywhere
From Vox: Even if you’ve dismissed AI technology in the past, there are two big reasons to start taking it seriously.
A.I. versus M.D. – What happens when diagnosis is automated?
From The New Yorker: In some trials, “deep learning” systems have outperformed human experts.
A conversation with AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio
From Microsoft: When Microsoft acquired deep learning startup Maluuba in January, Maluuba’s highly respected advisor, the deep learning pioneer Yoshua Bengio, agreed to continue advising Microsoft on its artificial intelligence efforts.