Artificial Intelligence Could Get Honest About Its Humanity In 2018 - Crunchbase News

Artificial intelligence has become quite the buzzword in the past year. Salesforce Ventures and Bloomberg Beta have built specific funds targeting the category. Meanwhile, exits are positive for AI startups, courtesy of major tech companies looking to bolster internal AI efforts. But while tech startups are embracing the AI terminology in their marketing materials and VC pitch decks, the technology often claimed to be AI is actually smorgasbord of machine learning, advanced algorithms (also known as deep learning), and natural language processing--with a dose of humanity to help tape it all together. And it's that last bit, the human bit, that founders and investors tend to gloss over. After all, the whole point of artificial intelligence is to make our gelatinous brains unnecessary.