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The New AI Economy

The convergence of technology leaps, social transformation, and genuine economic needs is catapulting AI (Artificial Intelligence) from its academic roots & decades of inertia to the forefront of business and industry. There has been a growing noise since last couple of years on how AI and its key subsets like Machine Learning and Deep Learning will affect all walks of life. Another phrase “Pervasive AI” is becoming part of our tech lexicon after the popularity of Amazon Echo and Google Home devices.

So what are the key factors pushing this renaissance of AI? We can quickly list them here:

  • Rise of Data Science from the basement to the boardroom of companies. Everyone saw the 3V’s of Big Data (volume, velocity, and variety). Data is called by many names – oxygen, the new oil, new gold, or the new currency.
  • Open source software such as Hadoop sparked this revolution in analytics using lots of unstructured data. The shift from retroactive to more predictive and prescriptive analytics is growing, for actionable business insights. Real-time BI is also taking a front seat.
  • Arrival of practical frameworks for handling big data revived AI (Machine Learning and Deep Learning) which fed happily on big data.
  • Existing CPU’s were not powerful for the fast processing needs of AI. Hence GPU (Graphical Processing Units) offered faster and more powerful chips. NVIDIA provided a positive force in this area. It’s ability to provide a full range of components (systems, servers, devices, software, and architecture) is making NVIDIA an essential player in the emerging AI economy. IBM’s neuromorphic computing project provides notable success in the area of perception, speech and image recognition.

Leading software vendors such as Google have numerous projects on AI ranging from speech and image recognition, language translation, and varieties of pattern matching. Facebook, Amazon, Uber, Netflix, and many others are racing to deploy AI into their products.

Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft is pumping $125M into his research lab Allen Institute of AI. The focus is to digitize common sense. Let me quote from today’s New York Times, “Today, machines can recognize nearby objects, identify spoken words, translate one language into another and mimic other human tasks with an accuracy that was not possible just a few years ago. These talents are readily apparent in the new wave of autonomous vehicles, warehouse robotics, smartphones and digital assistants. But these machines struggle with other basic tasks. Though Amazon’s Alexa does a good job of recognizing what you say, it cannot respond to anything more than basic commands and questions. When confronted with heavy traffic or unexpected situations, driverless cars just sit there”. Paul Allen added, “To make real progress in A.I., we have to overcome the big challenges in the area of common sense”.

Welcome to the new AI economy!

from: Jnan Dash’s Weblog
via Jnan Dash

Source: The New AI Economy Via Business Advice.

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