<div dir="ltr">One other thing. Talked to my son yesterday. He's focusing his doctoral work on finding a new AI algorithm.<div><br></div><div>You know that in machine earning most analysis involves simple graphing. The software compares sets of values and sorts them across a line. Those with this level of this or that go on one side, those with a lower level of this or that go on the other. The "magic" of machine learning today is it can do a lot of these sorts, and quite quickly. </div><div><br></div><div>John is looking into sorting through circles, the circle growing more complex as you add more dimensions. It's something that came up from his work on kinases last year -- he's publishing his master's thesis on it. It's a biotech doctorate, but sounds to me like a lot of high math and bioinformatics will be involved. </div><div><br></div><div>The Algorithmic Circle of Life.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 7:48 AM Dana Blankenhorn <<a href="mailto:danablankenhorn@gmail.com">danablankenhorn@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Agreed on all of this. I have been predicting a "marriage" between Silicon Valley and Detroit for years, but Detroit is super-reluctant. I think it's going to have to be forced, by Apple or Google buying a car production company. Ford is down to $31 billion. For Apple, at $1.06T, it would be like buying a croissant with the morning coffee. <div><br></div><div>I'd love to find a pure play robotics company, but Boston Dynamics has been a bust for all its owners, a toy for cloud czars to show off, but not a source of profit, and iRobot (IRBT) is fading fast, because it's now seen as a maker of vacuum cleaners. </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 7:44 AM Sharon Fisher <<a href="mailto:slfisher@gmail.com" target="_blank">slfisher@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I don't see Facebook. <div><br></div><div>There's a zillion tiny ai startups. </div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Oct 31, 2018, 5:42 AM James Gaskin <<a href="mailto:james@gaskin.com" target="_blank">james@gaskin.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I would throw a couple of robotics companies into the mix because that's where AI touches the world. Carnegie-Melon spinoffs might be a good article all by themselves.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> <br clear="all"></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="m_2629731494373054795m_4176444670218053318m_-2130410903572903166gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Thanks,</div><div>James</div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">James E. Gaskin<br><a href="http://www.gaskin.com" target="_blank">http://www.gaskin.com</a><br>Writer / Consultant / Speaker<br></div><div><a href="http://netpress.org/member/james-e-gaskin/" target="_blank">Member </a>Internet Press Guild<br></div><div><a href="https://jamesgaskin.contently.com/" target="_blank">Portfolio</a><br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00G6LJXZA" target="_blank"></a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 5:54 AM Dana Blankenhorn <<a href="mailto:danablankenhorn@gmail.com" target="_blank">danablankenhorn@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Thanks. Any other ideas from the group? I'm going to come up with a list of companies to focus on late this week. </div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 11:29 PM Joe Stanganelli <<a href="mailto:rodeojoe@hotmail.com" target="_blank">rodeojoe@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">To me an obvious candidate, and well over $50b market cap, but do you have Salesforce (CRM) on your list?<br>
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For that matter, I'd look at the martech area in general -- a lot of AI companies there. Too many to name off the top of my head.<br>
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Ditto for Uber, auto manufacturers, and any other company doing self-driving car work. Those working in AI outside of the self-driving-car sector blame that sector for taking all the AI talent.<br>
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Likewise for non-obvious sectors with a lot of tech goings-on, like PharmTech and AgTech. Resson comes to mind -- but they're a private company. Also check out Blue River Technology, which was bought by John Deere last year I think. And I'm sure Bayer/Monsanto has some AI goings on in the AgTech arena.<br>
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I'm sure I could come up with many more specific companies if I had to.<br>
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I've been tasked with doing a massive story on AI companies for InvestorPlace.<br>
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I know the obvious candidates, including IBM, MSFT, GOOGL, AMZN, ADBE. AAPL I figure the hardware guys like NVIDIA and AMD.<br>
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But who might be among the non-obvious candidates, with market caps under $50 billion, or even $10 billion, that I should look into?<br>
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