It ’s Amazing To See Just How Much Seems To Have Happened In A.I. in Twelve Months

This appeared last weekIt Was a Big Year for A.I.By Christina Bonnington AlphaGo beat the world's best Go player in May. A few months later, a new version beat the human-defeating version 100 to 0. 2017 has been a booming year for the field of artificial intelligence. While A.I. and data-focused machine learning have been around for decades, the algorithmic technologies have made their presence known in a variety of industries and contexts this year.Microsoft UK ’s chief envisioning officer Dave Coplin has called A.I. “the most important technology that anybody on the planet is working on today,” and Silicon Valley companies seem to have taken that to heart: They’ve been hiring A.I. experts right and left, and with those in short supply, they’ve s tarted teaching employees the fundamentals of A.I. themselves.Not every A.I. achievement has been met with admiration and applause, though. Some are worried about the human prejudices that are being introduced into A.I. systems. ProPublica... This is the initial part of the post - read more by clicking on the title of the article. David.
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