Start-up Lessons From the Once-Again Hot Field of AI

Start-up Lessons From the Once-Again Hot Field of AI

An example of a written summary that is generated from data interpreted by Narrative Science’s software. February 28, 2016 By STEVE LOHR In 2010, Kris Hammond, an experienced artificial intelligence researcher, and a few partners founded Narrative Science. The Chicago start-up’s software ingests and interprets numbers for things like investment holdings, billing records and sports statistics and transforms them into written summaries or stories. From the outset, the company’s technology was promising, but the timing was tricky for the new venture. It opened its doors the year before IBM’s Watson publicly demonstrated the potential of machine intelligence with its “Jeopardy!” victory. “At the start, we didn’t call it artificial intelligence because A.I. was still in disrepute,” recalled Mr. Hammond, chief scientist for Narrative Science. Today, a start-up that can lay…


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