Everyone’s talking a big game about AI. But check out how some of our #PMIFuture50 leaders are looking beyond the buzz—and putting AI into action. Kathleen Siminyu is on a mission to “ensure that our African languages are not left behind.” To deliver on that goal, she’s leading a project at the Mozilla Foundation to help computers understand the Kiswahili language as it’s spoken and written. The result? By annotating the language for a variety of machine learning tasks, Siminyu’s team is building speech transcription models. And that means more than 200 million speakers of the language will gain greater access to tools like videoconference apps and talk-to-text services. Felipe Lara Leyva is using AI to spot business opportunities—in real time. As founder and CTO of Percepthor, he sends motorcyclists with cameras to capture 360-degree images around Mexico City. And then he taps AI to create an indexable image database. The project is still in the works, but companies are already clam...