Is your startup an AI company? -- A practical guide for CEOs – Midwest VC Musings

In case you've been hanging out with the technology groundhog in its cave: we're in the midst of an AI spring. The past two years have seen a resurgence in excitement around our ability to model human-like intelligence in computer algorithms. This excitement has a number of catalysts, not least of which is the enabled application of deep neural networks to a multitude of fields by the advancement of Moore's law. For the average person, the AI spring is a period of unbridled excitement: your iPhone will transcribe your voicemails so you don't have to lift the phone to your ear, Facebook will translate the posts of the friends you made during that one summer in college in Puerto Rico, and your Alexa can tell you interesting trivia about Star Wars. But the life of a startup CEO is not so simple.