8 Companies Using Machine Learning in Cool Ways

Tailor Brands is an automated branding platform that helps small businesses create a brand identity. When asked what advice he'd give to world leaders, Elon Musk replied, "Implement a protocol to control the development of Artificial Intelligence." If left unchecked, he reasoned that machine learning technology would outgrow its developer and see it (us) as no longer an essential part of the process. And as few technologies are more progressive or disruptive in their advancement, he might have a point! But before ML pulls a terminator on us, it's shaking up the corporate landscape, unlocking once closed markets, leveling playing fields by providing innovative solutions to long-standing problems, and making it easier for the little guys to compete with the corporate goliaths.