Video analytics company Conviva secured a $40 million funding round last week, so we were keen to delve into the company’s plans for putting the cash towards developing artificial intelligence (AI) technologies for its OTT intelligence platform – with initial skepticism about the use of the AI buzzword. AI is not an area Conviva has traditionally blown its own trumpet for pioneering, so increased investment in this space, coupled with a road map towards reaping the rewards of a booming OTT video market in Asia Pacific, has the potential to further cement the company’s dominant position in the OTT UX market. This is fitting of the tech industry as a whole today, not just video analytics, with the volume of…