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  image source | Analytics Vidhya   Early in his career, Jacob Jackson was all in with AI. While still a University of Waterloo computer science student, Jackson co-founded Tabnine, the AI coding helper that raised nearly $60 million in venture capital. In 2019, when he was doing his final exams, Jackson sold Tabnine to Codata. He then started working as an intern at OpenAI and stayed there until 2022. Jackson felt the need to launch a new business at that point to facilitate standard developer workflows. Jackson said, "In the years since I built Tabnine, tools like ChatGPT and Github Copilot have changed the way developers work." The underlying technology has advanced significantly since I started working on developer tools, so it's a very exciting moment to be involved in it. Since I founded Tabnine, many more developers have expressed interest in utilizing AI tools to streamline their processes. Jackson then launched Superman, an AI coding platform similar to Tabni...

  image credits |  Andreessen Horowitz   Andreessen Horowitz’s partner Joshua Lu knows that, in the video game industry, you can never get too comfortable. When he was head of product at Zynga, he experienced the height of mobile games, working on hits like Words with Friends; then as a vice president at Blizzard Entertainment, he helped produce tentpole hits like Diablo Immortal. And then, as a director of product management at Meta, he learned to see games in new dimensions while working on the VR game, Horizon Worlds. “I had to forget what I thought were universal truths and learn a whole new set of ways to do things,” Lu told TechCrunch. Now Lu wants a front-row seat to where video games are heading. After joining the firm as an investor in 2022, Lu was involved in the establishment of the company's Speedrun accelerator, which twice a year invests $750,000 each in around 40 gaming firms. Lu said he has observed how AI and new distribution platforms are transforming...

One surprising pattern that has emerged as firms experiment with integrating AI everywhere is their reliance on AI to help their numerous newly acquired bots comprehend human emotion The new Enterprise Saas Emerging Tech Research report from PitchBook identifies this field as "emotion AI" and projects that this technology will grow in the near future. The logic goes something like this: How can an AI function effectively if it can't distinguish between an irate "What do you mean by that?" and an informed "Executioner, what do you mean by that?" If companies are using AI assistants to aid executives and staff, and if AI chatbots are front-line salespeople and customer care representatives? as well as a perplexed "What do you mean by that?" Emotion artificial intelligence is positioned as the more advanced offspring of sentiment analysis, the pre-AI technology that strives to extract human emotion. source | Elegant Themes "A key compon...