Startups of The Year: Meet the AI Industry

The rapid rise of the AI industry, especially after ChatGPT's explosion in popularity, can make it easy to forget that artificial intelligence began as a serious scientific endeavor in the early 1950s. Since then, it has steadily evolved into a cornerstone of modern technology.

AI’s newfound momentum can be linked to the big data and computing power advances of the early 21st century, enabling breakthroughs in image recognition, natural language processing, and autonomous systems.

Onwards, advanced deep learning and reinforcement learning algorithms have empowered machines to tackle tasks once thought exclusive to humans, with major players like Microsoft, Google, and Facebook driving industry growth with their substantial resources. However, it's startups like OpenAI, renowned for its groundbreaking natural language processing algorithm GPT-3, that have spurred global adoption and sparked intense interest in the industry's future. While the AI industry has made significant strides, it's essential to approach its development with caution. Ethical considerations, privacy concerns, and the looming shadows of monopolies are just a few of the challenges that must be addressed as AI continues to shape our world.

Startups of The Year 2024 & AI

The AI category in Startups of The Year covers various sectors including:

• Machine Learning
• Chatbots
• Generative AI
• AI Wrappers
• Analytics
• Business Intelligence
• Robotics
• Automation

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— Amit Matani, CEO of Wellfound

AI on HackerNoon

HackerNoon has covered the AI revolution, in real time. Our Tech Categories include a dedicated AI page where you can find every AI-related story published on HackerNoon from Machine Learning and Large Language Models to Generative AI and Neural Networks, as well as a weekly ranking of the top AI writers, on HackerNoon.

At HackerNoon, we have also been at the forefront of AI tools to assist our writers in being the best they can be, starting with our AI-generated TL;DR that scans your article and quickly describes the key points made in the piece for hackers on the go. But perhaps even more impressive is our awesome AI image generator, which utilizes a multitude of generative models, including FLUX, Stable Diffusion, Kandinsky, and RealVisXL. Simply put in what you want to see and get a great featured image in no time!

Best of all, our old friend Dr. One has been upgraded with AI tools right in the HackerNoon CMS. Dr. One can now offer on-page editing, code formatting, and translation services, all in a few button clicks, so your piece can shine before our human editors take a final look at it. Check out how to activate Dr. One’s new features here!

Meet Our Current Top AI Writers

1. Roshin Unnikrishnan: With over 12 hours of total reading time across four Generative AI stories, Roshin’s popular pieces include “Reimagining Rev-Ops with Gen AI: Precision Marketing” and “Reimagining Revenue Operations with Gen AI.”
2. Dominic Ligot: With 15 stories published, Dominic has aggregated 3 days 8 hours, and 22 minutes of total reading time, placing him second on the top AI writers list. His most popular piece, “The Dark Reality: People Misusing ChatGPT,” sheds light on the ethical challenges of AI misuse.
3. Susie Liu: An expert in artificial intelligence, marketing, and machine learning, Susie has garnered over 12 days of total reading time, with “Alibaba’s Metaverse Art Exhibition is a Great Snapshot of China’s Current NFT Landscape” being her most popular piece.

AI Stories to Kickstart Your Journey

1. The Ethics of Local LLMs: Responding to Zuckerberg's "Open Source AI Manifesto" by Tech Shinobi

This post explains the reason why Zuckerberg integrated Fediverse and open-sourced LLaMA, and it is not because of his virtue. And why FOSS is the way to cure Capitalism's disease and to save our environment?

https://hackernoon.com/the-ethics-of-local-llms-responding-to-zuckerbergs-open-source-ai-manifesto?embedable=true

2. How to Leverage LLMs for Effective and Scalable Software Development by Bishal

YCombinator CEO Garry Tan tweeted a post by a YCombinator Reddit community member about writing code with Claude 3.5 Sonnet. The post highlighted the importance of making sound architectural and infrastructural decisions as a crucial part of their day-to-day LLM use.

https://hackernoon.com/how-to-leverage-llms-for-effective-and-scalable-software-development?embedable=true

3. Will New York’s AI Weapons Detector Evolv Solve Problems or Create New Ones? by Allan Grain

The City of New York recently announced it would begin implementing the use of AI weapons detectors on the city’s subways. The scanners, about 6 feet tall, feature the logo of the city's police department and a multicolor light display. When a weapon is detected, an alert is sent to a tablet monitored by a pair of NYPD officers. The system is not supposed to alert everyday items, such as phones and laptops.

https://hackernoon.com/will-new-yorks-ai-weapons-detector-evolv-solve-problems-or-create-new-ones?embedable=true

That’s all for today!

About HackerNoon’s Startups of The Year

Startups of The Year 2024 is HackerNoon’s flagship community-driven event celebrating startups, technology, and the spirit of innovation. Currently in its third iteration, the prestigious Internet award recognizes and celebrates tech startups of all shapes and sizes. This year, over 150,000 entities across 4200+ cities, 6 continents, and 100+ industries will participate in a bid to be crowned the best startup of the year! Millions of votes have been cast over the past few years, and many stories have been written about these daring and rising startups.

The winners will get a free interview on HackerNoon and an Evergreen Tech Company News page.

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