{"id":94642,"date":"2019-08-11T04:42:48","date_gmt":"2019-08-11T11:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/5-artificial-intelligence-companies-to-watch-in-2018"},"modified":"2019-08-11T04:42:48","modified_gmt":"2019-08-11T11:42:48","slug":"5-artificial-intelligence-companies-to-watch-in-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/5-artificial-intelligence-companies-to-watch-in-2018","title":{"rendered":"5 Artificial Intelligence Companies to Watch in 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/5-artificial-intelligence-companies-to-watch-in-2018.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Artificial intelligence hit some key milestones in 2017. At Facebook, chatbots were able to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inc.com\/kevin-j-ryan\/facebook-training-artificial-intelligence-to-negotiate.html\">negotiate<\/a> as well as their human counterparts. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inc.com\/kevin-j-ryan\/ai-system-libratus-beating-worlds-best-poker-players.html\">poker-playing system<\/a> designed by Carnegie Mellon professors mopped the floor with live opponents. There were even some potentially life-saving breakthroughs, like the machine vision system that can determine whether a mole is cancerous with more than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inc.com\/kevin-j-ryan\/artificial-intelligence-can-detect-skin-cancer-as-well-as-dematologists.html\">90 percent accuracy<\/a>\u2014beating out a group of dermatologists.<\/p>\n<p>From agriculture to medicine and beyond, plenty of startups are using AI in innovative ways. Here are five companies you should expect big things from in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>SoundHound has been around for 13 years, and has spent that time trying to build the most powerful voice assistant ever. The startup began by creating a Shazam-like song recognition app called Midomi; now, the newly released Hound app is capable of answering complex voice prompts like, \u201cShow me all below-average-priced restaurants within a five-mile radius that are open past 10 p.m. but don\u2019t include Chinese or pizza places,\u201d or \u201cWhat\u2019s the weather like in the capital of the biggest state in the U.S.?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial intelligence hit some key milestones in 2017. At Facebook, chatbots were able to negotiate as well as their human counterparts. A poker-playing system designed by Carnegie Mellon professors mopped the floor with live opponents. There were even some potentially life-saving breakthroughs, like the machine vision system that can determine whether a mole is cancerous [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94642","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=94642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}