March of Innovators

These are the questions I often meet in my daily work with innovative startups and corporates all trying to assess the trajectories with higher potentials and market opportunities. AI is a true game changer. It has showed extraordinary advancements in the last couple of years thanks to a new technique called "deep learning" which allows machines to become superintelligent by crunching myriads of examples and data rather than being explicitly programmed. Independently of the specific deep learning technique, the idea of taking advantage from extensive amounts of computing power and giant quantities of data to mimic human brains and neuronal systems is already proving very effective to power internet search engines, block spam emails, translate web pages, recognize voice commands, etc. Moreover the recent success of AI is opening the route to applications in a number of industries: improved vision systems for example are up to boost disruption in the automotive and mobility worlds with self-driving cars, retailers logistics with smarter delivery drones, the surveillance universe and medical diagnosis scientific breakthroughs with powered image recognition. In addition dynamic-reaction systems and Automated Teller Machines can be used in massive clusters of white-collar jobs also in traditionally conservative industries such as in legal, banking, health-care, journalism, etc., sectors where human answers, expert advice, reports, editorial summaries can be substituted by Intelligent Machines.