Impact of Artificial Intelligence Startups

While our May 4th edition is not about futuristic talking droids or about laser beams, it only seems reasonable to look at the future of technology through the lens of artificial intelligence today. AI technology comes in many shapes and forms, and the pandemic has accelerated AI's use in almost every industry. Here are three examples of AI usage and the startups that have used AI to solve a number of wide-ranging issues.

Healthcare and Biotech
Advances in AI are making it easier to mimic human cognition in the analysis, presentation, and comprehension of complex medical and health care data. This idea includes using AI to map trends in healthcare to improve patient care and diagnostics, the way Komodo Health does, or to leverage AI for new drug discovery like Genesis Therapeutics and Verge Genomics.

Computer Vision
Viz.ai and AMP Robotics are two startups using computer vision AI to improve two very different industries—healthcare and waste recycling—by processing millions of images to map complex streams of information.

Natural Language Processing
AI usage in natural language processing (NLP) has made it easier for computers to understand human language. Whisper is an AI-enabled hearing aid that gets smarter over time, leveraging NLP to process sound in real-time and optimize it for your surroundings. Lilt is an enterprise translation machine that leverages NLP to make the translation better over time, as it continues to learn different languages.