The Current State of Machine Intelligence

I spent the last three months learning about every artificial intelligence, machine learning, or data related startup I could find -- my current list has 2,529 of them to be exact. A few years ago, investors and startups were chasing "big data" (I helped put together a landscape on that industry). Now we're seeing a similar explosion of companies calling themselves artificial intelligence, machine learning, or somesuch -- collectively I call these "machine intelligence" (I'll get into the definitions in a second). Our fund, Bloomberg Beta, which is focused on the future of work, has been investing in these approaches. I created this landscape to start to put startups into context.