Pervasive connectivity and cheap cloud storage enable applied AI
Rudina Seseri · 20VC: Who Will Own The Data? Is There An Incumbency Advantage in AI? When Will Artificial Super Intelligence Come To The Forefront with Rudina Seseri, Founder and Managing Director @ Glasswing Ventures · Nov 9, 2016 · at 5:36
Rudina Sesari, founder and managing partner of Glasswing Ventures, outlines the key macro drivers creating timing for applied AI startup opportunities.
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“What has transformed or what has changed the market timing for adoption is this emergence of what we at Glasswing call pervasive connectivity and the inputs and outputs to it. So by pervasive connectivity, we're really referring to the notion that consumers and enterprises now have many, many, many points of connection. We don't see convergence to one device. We see the existence of many devices around us, wherever we are in the home, in the car in our offices, educational institutions, wherever the case may be. Where we're constantly connected and constantly on through different devices and means. That pervasive connectivity has enabled the emergence of a new wave of multitudes and terabytes of data that now can be leveraged to train models on the AI side, can be leveraged to essentially bring sort of the AI promise with machine learning, but also the other facets from speech recognition to face recognition to social cognition, et cetera, To reality. Couple that with the fact that mobility as a revolution, if you will, has happened, and storage costs with cloud computing have come down dramatically, make for the right market timing for narrow or applied AI to emerge.”
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