They may not look like robo-humans from I, Robot, but AI bots are becoming an all-too-real part of daily life.
From AI bots that track eyeballs to robo-operators that queue up sales calls, here’s a roundup of some of the newest AI bots on the block:
AI-powered cars aren’t smart enough to drive (yet). But, thanks to Israeli startup EyeSight, AI-powered cars are smart enough to know when human drivers are doing something stupid.
EyeSight, which just raised $15m, uses facial recognition processing and AI to track drivers’ ‘eye-openness,’ gaze direction, and head position to determine attentiveness. When a driver gets distracted by a hilarious meme, the system switches over to self-driving mode.
The EU will require driver monitoring systems (DMS) by 2020, meaning more distracted-driver watch-bots are on the way.
Factories that require actual human labor are so last century — at least, that’s what manufacturing automation startup Bright Machines believes.
Investors seem to agree: Bright Machines raised a whopping $179m Series A to shake things up across the factory floor.
Bright Machines takes a software-centric approach to automating factories, updating both the robots and their operating systems.
By combining AI and behavioral science to analyze customer calls, Afiniti helps companies avoid pissing people off — and gain an average 4.87% in telesales.
The ‘behavioral pairing’ startup raised $130m at a $1.6B valuation, which means that the company’s value increased 10x in just the past year after 5 consecutive years of growing revenue at least 100%.
AI-powered sales tech is taking off: Just yesterday, People.ai raised $30m to expand its AI-powered sales-rep tracking system.