Companies Manipulating A.I. Systems for Competitive Advantage
March 10, 2020Multitask Learning
March 10, 2020Marketplace Consolidation
As much as the A.I. ecosystem is booming, a rush of acquisitions means consolidation, too.
As much as the A.I. ecosystem is booming, a rush of acquisitions means consolidation, too. Big companies now pick up startups long before they have time to mature—the average age at acquisition is three years old.
Just nine big companies dominate the A.I. landscape: Google, Amazon, Microsoft, IBM, Facebook and Apple in the U.S. and Chinese behemoths Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent—with significant fortification and support from the Chinese government.
On the investment side, Qualcomm, Tencent, Intel Capital, Google Ventures, Nvidia, Salesforce, Samsung Ventures, Alibaba, Apple, Baidu, Citi and In-Q-Tel fund much of the growth.
When it comes to the future of A.I., we should ask whether consolidation makes sense for the greater good, and whether competition—and therefore access—will eventually be hindered as we’ve seen in other fields such as telecommunications and cable.
Related trends
This trend is part of our section on Artificial Intelligence. Other trends in this section include:
- A.I. and Digital Dividends
- Prioritizing Accountability and Trust
- Ambient Computing Expands
- Ubiquitous Digital Assistants
- A.I. for Drug Development
- A.I. for Interviews
- Consumer-Grade A.I. Applications
- The New Mil-Tech Industrial Complex
- National A.I. Strategies
- The Race to Establish A.I. Rules
- Algorithmic Warfare
- Making A.I. Explain Itself
- Using A.I. in Critical Systems
- China’s A.I. Rules
- Artificial Emotional Intelligence
- Personal Digital Twins
- Problematic Data Sets
- A.I. to Catch Cheaters
- Algorithms Designed to Target Vulnerable Populations
- A.I. Still Has a Bias Problem
- A.I. Systems Intentionally Hiding Data
- The Rise of Undocumented A.I. Accidents
- Multitask Learning
- Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs)
- New Generative Modeling Techniques
- Probabilistic Programming Languages
- Machine Image Completion
- Hybrid Human-Computer Vision Analysis
- Predictive Machine Vision
- Automated Machine Learning (AutoML)
- Customized Machine Learning
- Graph Neural Networks
- Intelligent Optical Character Recognition
- A.I. for the Creative Process
- Generative Algorithms for Content Production
- Generating Virtual Environments from Short Videos
- Automated Versioning
- Automatic Voice Cloning and Dubbing
- Spotting Machine-Written Text
- Algorithmic Fact Checking
- Datamining Crowds
- Deep Linking
- Corporate Biometric Spoofing
- Bots
- Global Rush to Fund A.I.
- Algorithm Marketplaces
- Marketplace Consolidation
- Fragmentation
- Liability Insurance for A.I.
- Ambient Surveillance
- Creating 3D Models from Flat 2D Images
- Neuro-Symbolic A.I. Algorithms and Systems
- Real-Time Machine Learning
- Natural Language Understanding (NLU)
- Machine Reading Comprehension (MRC)
- Natural Language Generation (NLG)
- Real-Time Context in Machine Learning
- General Reinforcement Learning Algorithms
- Deep Learning Scales
- Faster and More Powerful Open Source Frameworks
- Reinforcement Learning and Hierarchical RL
- Continuous Learning
- Using A.I. to Speed the Process of Scientific Discovery
- A.I. in the Cloud
- Robotic Process Automation
- Digital Twins and Cognitive Twins in the Enterprise
- Robots with Cognitive Skills
- Advanced A.I. Chipsets
- Serverless Computing
- Proprietary, Homegrown A.I. Languages
- Proliferation of Franken-Algorithms
- Companies Manipulating A.I. Systems for Competitive Advantage
This trend is related to the following industries:
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