The Key to AI's Future: One Startup's Quest for Collaboration

With thousands of artificial intelligence solutions available to apply to a myriad of business functions, the issue for enterprises seeking to innovate with AI is not that the market doesn't have options -- it's that there are too many, creating confusion on which technologies provide actual business value, and which are better in theory than in practice. Today, the AI tech ecosystem is awash with narrow AI solutions, cognitive engines built to perform one task well - engines in categories like natural language processing, image recognition and facial detection. According to Gartner, "Small, unconstrained market players specializing in AI core technologies will cause sporadic business disruption in the near future. In the long term, the main disruptive effect of AI core technologies will arise through revolutionary business ideas enabled by those technologies." Veritone, a recent IPO out of Costa Mesa, Calif., caught my attention as one such business, grasping the idea that many AI brains are better than one when used together to solve business problems.