- Ray Kurzweil is building a chatbot for Google via The Verge
シンギュラリティについてはマトリックスの世界観とか火の鳥とかぼんやりと「未来ですよね」ぐらいにしか調べておらず、レイ・カーツワイル氏の書籍とか手に取ったことすらありませんでした。
ただ最近になって人工知能・VRやAR関連の話題が増えるに従い、彼の名前やシンギュラリティそのものを取材時にワードとしてしばしば聞くようになり、改めて書籍等々手に取っている次第でございます。
ということでレイ・カーツワイル氏がGoogleで働いていた頃の取り組みが実はチャットボットとして今、世の中に出てきてるそうです。チャットボットはバズワードなので飛びつくと正直火傷が激しいとは思いますが、その裏にある思想やインターフェース論などは個人的にも好きなので、しばらく追いかけていく予定でございます。
調達関連
- Fintech investments in Asia grew five-fold to $2.6b in Q1: report via Tech in Asia
- Security chatbot startup Demisto comes out of stealth with $6 million via VentureBeat
- Report: Southeast Asia’s internet economy to grow to $200B by 2025 via TechCrunch
- Singaporean startup SiS bags US$1.45M to boost maritime IoT technology via e27
- PapayaMobile Announces IPO On NEEQ For International Expansion via TechNode
- Woman-led ad tech firm PapayaMobile goes public in China via VentureBeat
- Multi-cloud security startup vArmour raises $41M more, led in part by new strategic Telstra via TechCrunch
- NuTonomy raises $16M to make self-driving taxis a reality by 2018 via TechCrunch
- eBay buys Spain’s Ticketbis for $165M to expand StubHub into Europe, Latin America, Asia via TechCrunch
- This Tiny, 2-year-(Owl)d startup raised US$28M, flew over India, and now looking for a crash landing via e27
- TourRadar locates $6M Series A for its travel tour booking site via TechCrunch
- Southeast Asia financial comparison startup Jirnexu lands $3M to expand to digital banking services via TechCrunch
- Food Fight: Grocery Delivery vs. Meal Delivery Funding Trends via CB Insights — Blog
- With $3.25 million in funding, Molekule launches its molecular air purifier via VentureBeat
- Austrian startup TourRadar raises $6 million to grow its online travel marketplace via VentureBeat
人工知能・チャットボット
- SoftBank, Foxconn Commit $30M To Chinese AI And Cloud Startup via TechNode
- Why chatbots should be more like R2D2 than C3PO, and other lessons for Silicon Valley’s hottest trend via Tech
- A bot walks into a bank … via VentureBeat
- The Chinese Government Wants A 100 Billion RMB AI Market By 2018 via TechNode
- This is what music written by AI sounds like via Technology — Quartz
- Researchers want robots to feel pain via The Verge
VR・AR関連
- Inside a Chinese game company’s shot at the global VR market via Tech in Asia
- Google VR boss: ‘Hold off for a few months’ if you want a Daydream phone via The Next Web
- 7 Valuable Lessons About VR and AR in the Healthcare and Education Industries via UploadVR
- Apple’s route to virtual reality via Recode — All
- Magic Leap Is Suing Two Former Employees, Here Are The Court Documents via UploadVR
- I Want Wireless Positional VR So Much This Omen X Backpack PC From HP Looks Great via UploadVR
