Investors Speak: Where AI Drives Real Value in Business

Place and cultural differences are also important when designing new technologies, which goes back to using hometown, state, or country to your advantage. For example, in the world of chat bots and natural language technologies, we've talked before with Baidu USA's Adam Coates about the differences between mobile users in the U.S. and those in China. Tak Lo, an investor with Hong Kong-based Zeroth.AI, mirrored this idea: "People interact with messenger applications (in Asia) very different than in the West...a lot of people in, say, China actually speak...it's a very different interface...chat bots can take off in Asia, but people trying to solve chatbots in Asia need to think differently," he said.