An Israeli AI Company Is Giving Machines The Gift Of Sight

On the second floor of a small office building in the middle of Tel Aviv, the bustling heart of Israel's booming tech industry, sits the world headquarters for Cortica, an AI company with the ambitious goal of getting machines to see the world as well as we do. They are one of hundreds of AI startups that have sprouted up all over the world in the last few years. The global AI market has now exceeded a billion dollars and the tech giants are racing to acquire them as they are re-positioning themselves as AI companies first. But it's a convoluted space with a high knowledge barrier of entry. Most of these companies use buzz words like'machine learning', 'deep learning' or'neural networks' knowing that most consumers and investors have no idea what they really mean. For someone without a background in the field it can be hard to distinguish substance from snake oil.