From my experience, we are still at the premises of AI in marketing. Here are some areas of marketing where I believe AI is beginning to make interesting inroads. Copy writing is one area with a company like Persado as one example raising an interesting round ($38M if I remember correctly) to deliver AI-written content that is trained on actual engagement from the big data graph. The idea is to remove the guesswork, think manual copy testing, and embed actual results into your first draft. This apply to both B2B and B2C growth marketing.

Early on an unusually blustery day in June, Kevin Esvelt climbed aboard a ferry at Woods Hole, bound for Nantucket Island. Esvelt, an assistant professor of biological engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was on his way to present to local health officials a plan for ridding the island of one of its most persistent problems: Lyme disease. He had been up for much of the night working on his slides, and the fatigue showed. He had misaligned the buttons on his gray pin-striped shirt, and the rings around his deep-blue eyes made him look like a sandy-haired raccoon. Esvelt, who is thirty-four, directs the "sculpting evolution" group at M.I.T., where he and his colleagues are attempting to design molecular tools capable of fundamentally altering the natural world. If the residents of Nantucket agree, Esvelt intends to use those tools to rewrite the DNA of white-footed mice to make them immune to the bacteria that cause Lyme and other tick-borne diseases. He and his team would breed the mice in the laboratory and then, as an initial experiment, release them on an uninhabited island. If the number of infected ticks begins to plummet, he would seek permission to repeat the process on Nantucket and on nearby Martha's Vineyard. More than a quarter of Nantucket's residents have been infected with Lyme, which has become one of the most rapidly spreading diseases in the United States. The illness is often accompanied by a red bull's-eye rash, along with fever and chills. When the disease is caught early enough, it can be cured in most cases with a single course of antibiotics. For many people, though, pain and neurological symptoms can persist for years. In communities throughout the Northeast, the fear of ticks has changed the nature of summer itself--few parents these days would permit a child to run barefoot through the grass or wander blithely into the woods. "What if we could wave our hands and make this problem go away?" Esvelt asked the two dozen officials and members of the public who had assembled at the island's police station for his presentation. He explained that white-footed mice are the principal reservoir of Lyme disease, which they pass, through ticks, to humans.

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Since 2014, $6B USD has been raised by 900 startups globally in AI, making it one of the hottest technology themes. AI is forecasted to generate $47B USD in annual revenues and replace 5 million jobs globally by 2020. From entrepreneurs like Elon Musk to tech giants like Facebook and Google, enormous resources and focus is being directed towards pushing the boundaries of AI capabilities and applications. What role can AI play in shaping India's economy and innovation culture? With over 200 startups leading the way, there is a real opportunity for every entrepreneur to make a mark in this sunrise sector.

After three years of almost single-handedly juicing up the slow-growing economy, Janet L. Yellen and the Federal Reserve should be looking at easier days ahead. Yellen, in what will probably be her last full year as Fed chair, may finally get help from somewhere else in Washington. Tax cuts and infrastructure spending planned by President-elect Donald Trump, if backed by the Republican-controlled Congress, would lighten the load for a Fed whose easy-money policies have been the primary economic support for the nation. She is already breathing easier on the Fed's employment mandate; the jobless rate has fallen to a nine-year low of 4.6%. Inflation, too, is under control and, by all accounts, creeping toward the central bank's optimal level of 2%.

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What if your security camera could not only see who's at your door, but also identify whether it's a guest you're expecting, alert you when they arrive, and let them in? Or how about a speaker system that automatically plays music as your child wakes up? That's the type of functionality Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (fb) is trying to build into his virtual butler, Jarvis, which he's been developing throughout the year as part of his New Year's resolution. With 2016 coming to a close, Zuckerberg published a lengthy blog post detailing the types of tasks Jarvis can accomplish. He also wrote about the biggest challenges that he faced when developing his artificial intelligence (AI) software, and where he believes AI is heading.

The same can be said about the world of science, which witnessed some of the biggest breakthroughs in decades, even as it provided several grim reminders about the impact of climate change on planet Earth. One hundred years ago, Albert Einstein predicted that the collision of massive objects such as black holes and neutron stars can create "ripples" in the curvature of space-time. Earlier this year, scientists associated with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) discovered these distortions. "The achievement fulfilled a 100-year-old prediction, opened up a potential new branch of astronomy, and was a stunning technological accomplishment," the journal Science, which was one of the many publications that termed the discovery of gravitational waves "Breakthrough of the Year," said in a recent statement. Currently, all we know about the cosmos is what we have gathered from electromagnetic radiation such as radio waves, visible light, infrared light, X-rays and gamma rays.

This market is expected to be worth USD 1,7 million by 2022, growing at a CAGR of 65.3 percent between 2016 and 2022, according to a new reportnew report from Research and Markets. Deep learning is a branch of machine learning that attempts to model high level abstractions in data that is used in artificial intelligence programs. The major driver for the growth is the growing usage of deep learning technology across various industrial vertical such as advertisement, finance, automotive, medical and among other. Other important drivers for this market is the robust R&D for the development of better processing hardware for deep learning. Of all the major end-user industries, the medical industry has highest growth opportunity.

Deep learning has continued to drive the computing industry's agenda in 2016. But come 2017, experts say the Artificial Intelligence community will intensify its demand for higher performance and more power efficient "inference" engines for deep neural networks. The current deep learning system leverages advances in large computation power to define network, big data sets for training, and access to the large computing system to accomplish its goal. Unfortunately, the efficient execution of this learning is not so easy on embedded systems (i.e. This problem leaves wide open the possibility for innovation of technologies that can put deep neural network power into end devices. "Deploying Artificial Intelligence at the edge [of the network] is becoming a massive trend," Movidius CEO, Remi El-Ouazzane, told us a few months ago.