{"id":76740,"date":"2018-03-11T12:22:56","date_gmt":"2018-03-11T19:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/nvidia-inceptions-ai-health-care-startups-cover-neural-interfaces-to-better-mri"},"modified":"2018-03-12T12:04:22","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T19:04:22","slug":"nvidia-inceptions-ai-health-care-startups-cover-neural-interfaces-to-better-mri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/nvidia-inceptions-ai-health-care-startups-cover-neural-interfaces-to-better-mri","title":{"rendered":"Nvidia Inception\u2019s AI health care startups cover neural interfaces to better MRI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nvidia-inceptions-ai-health-care-startups-cover-neural-interfaces-to-better-mri.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>More than 200 artificial intelligence startups applied for <a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2017\/04\/23\/nvidia-identifies-the-top-5-ai-startups-for-social-impact\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nvidia\u2019s<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nvidia.com\/en-us\/deep-learning-ai\/startups\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Inception<\/a> contest, which seeks to identify the best AI startups. The company created the program to find new uses for its graphics processing units (GPUs), but it\u2019s also hoping these startups will change the world.<\/p>\n<p>So far, the company has identified more than 2,800 AI startups over the years through Inception. I listened to pitches from 12 finalists in a <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nvidia.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/07\/ai-startups-inception-awards-gtc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Shark Tank<\/em> styled judging event<\/a> last week. Each is competing to be one of three finalists to share the $1 million prize pool.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re trying to enable our ecosystem of deep learning neural networks,\u201d said Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, as he introduced a panel of four judges. The 12 semi-finalists gave their 8-minute pitches, six finalists were selected, and the final winners will be picked at the company\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nvidia.com\/en-us\/gtc\/?nvid=nv-int-gc28-33600\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GPU Technology Conference<\/a> on March 27 in San Jose, California. They ranged from AI for bionic arms to faster, cheaper, and more accurate magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2018\/03\/11\/nvidia-inceptions-ai-health-care-startups-cover-neural-interfaces-to-better-mri\/\">https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2018\/03\/11\/nvidia-inceptions-ai-heal...etter-mri\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 200 artificial intelligence startups applied for Nvidia\u2019s Inception contest, which seeks to identify the best AI startups. The company created the program to find new uses for its graphics processing units (GPUs), but it\u2019s also hoping these startups will change the world. So far, the company has identified more than 2,800 AI startups [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1499,1495,6,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cyborgs","category-health","category-robotics-ai","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76769,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76740\/revisions\/76769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}