[Ipg-smz] Story I'm working on

Wed Oct 31 11:53:32 UTC 2018

One other thing. Talked to my son yesterday. He's focusing his doctoral
work on finding a new AI algorithm.

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.

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.

The Algorithmic Circle of Life.

On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 7:48 AM Dana Blankenhorn <danablankenhorn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 7:44 AM Sharon Fisher <slfisher at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I don't see Facebook.
>>
>> There's a zillion tiny ai startups.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 31, 2018, 5:42 AM James Gaskin <james at gaskin.com> wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> James
>>>
>>>
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>>> On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 5:54 AM Dana Blankenhorn <
>>> danablankenhorn at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thanks. Any other ideas from the group? I'm going to come up with a
>>>> list of companies to focus on late this week.
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 11:29 PM Joe Stanganelli <rodeojoe at hotmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> To me an obvious candidate, and well over $50b market cap, but do you
>>>>> have Salesforce (CRM) on your list?
>>>>>
>>>>> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm sure I could come up with many more specific companies if I had to.
>>>>>
>>>>> ________________________________________
>>>>> From: Ipg-smz <ipg-smz-bounces at netpress.org> on behalf of Dana
>>>>> Blankenhorn <danablankenhorn at gmail.com>
>>>>> Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2018 8:19 PM
>>>>> To: ipg-smz
>>>>> Subject: [Ipg-smz] Story I'm working on
>>>>>
>>>>> I've been tasked with doing a massive story on AI companies for
>>>>> InvestorPlace.
>>>>>
>>>>> I know the obvious candidates, including IBM, MSFT, GOOGL, AMZN, ADBE.
>>>>> AAPL I figure the hardware guys like NVIDIA and AMD.
>>>>>
>>>>> But who might be among the non-obvious candidates, with market caps
>>>>> under $50 billion, or even $10 billion, that I should look into?
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