AI is so overhyped. VB Summit will sort through the noise – VentureBeat

AI is so hot, its all people are talking about at least in Silicon Valley. The big companies like Facebook, Google, and Apple are in an all-out war trying to hire the best talent or acquire the smartest companies in this new area. You cant sit in a SF Bay Area coffee shop these days without hearing someone dropping the word AI in pitches. And as with all major trends, theres a lot of snake oil being sold, sofiltering out the noise from the real stuff is important.

Because despite the hype, AI is very real. Its potential impact on the market is in the hundreds of billions of dollars.

Which is why were proud to announce VentureBeat Summit onJune 5 and 6 in Berkeley, CA the first senior executive-level conference focused exclusively on how companies are applying artificial intelligence to get real results.

Register today for50% off with early-bird pricing a savings of $1,100!

Reserve your ticket here.

This invite-only event, which takes place at the historic Claremont Hotel in Berkeley for VP-level execs and above, will showcase technologiesand use cases that are transforming business now fromdigital applicationsin marketing and advertising to cyber security and the collaborative workplace.

Explaining technology disruption is VentureBeats specialty, and its why Im personally excited that were leading the charge in this fascinating area of AI. Were working hard to find the most compelling cases to showcase at the Summit. For example, well be hearing from VPs of marketing and other business units about how theyre using AI, and make sure to feature the hottest up-and-coming AI technologies and providers in the process.

Progress in AI and machine learning has unleashed a new wave of product innovation. Its spawned exciting large platforms like Facebooks Bots for Messenger, Amazons Alexa/Echo and Microsofts Cortana. But AI and machine learning have also empowered smaller developers and product managers who are building smarter apps of all kinds. Photo-sharing apps like Prisma exploded onto the scene last year, offering inspiring imagery created by neural nets.

This shows that harnessing AI isnt just in reach of the largest IT companies, but open to business executives everywhere.

And over the course of 2016, and entering 2017, a number of forces converged to allow astonishing breakthroughs in applications. They include availability of big data spurred by the mobile phone revolution, breakthroughs in science of neural networks and NLP, and reduced cost of powerful computing hardware machines, like that of Nvidias, to around $1,000.

The VB Summit will focus, in particular, on the digital industries where large amounts of data make AI technologies profitable. Companies applying this technology span industry verticals including consumer services, retail brands, and B2B enterprise.

Well dig beneath the hype, and bring to the surface those real technologies and strategies allowing executives to tap these forces for competitiveadvantage.

Well be announcing the first speakers shortly, but youll want to book this one early, because we expect to be sold out again. We do have a few spots available for those wanting to applyfor admission. Take advantage of our early bird pricing (save $1,100) which will last until March 10.

As a point of clarification, the event represents the metamorphosis of our Mobile Summit event, where we have featured leading speakers such as Sundar Pichai, now the CEO of Google, to explain the unfolding mobile revolution. That event, which weve done for six years, emerged to address the mobile revolution of the past decade. This year, however, we dropped Mobile from the name. Its now theVB Summit, and this year its all about AI.

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AI is so overhyped. VB Summit will sort through the noise - VentureBeat