It can make the interaction mit machines more human and integrate it flawlessly in our daily lives. But is there a flip side, will AI be the end of the design and designer as we know them? Tech giants such as Google, Facebook, IBM, Microsoft and Amazon not only proclaimed artificial intelligence as the strategic priority that will determine the future of their organizations, but have successively announced the achievement of new milestones. What has made these milestones exceptional is that instead allowing these new advancements to influence only their own products, these companies have made their successful developments available to all other organizations for use and integration into their respective products. And as AI is being integrated into more and more products, it will also influence the way we think about customer experience and user interfaces.

Facebook is open sourcing a set of computer vision software tools that can identify both the variety and the shape of objects within photos. The tools, developed by the Facebook AI Research (FAIR) team, are called DeepMask, SharpMask, and MultiPathNet, and all three work in tandem to help break down and contextualize the contents of images. These technologies, though not in active use in consumer Facebook products right now, are similar to the software the company uses to describe photos to blind users, a feature it calls "automatic alternative text" that launched back in April. DeepMask and SharpMask are more experimental research projects and focus on what the FAIR team calls segmentation. While human beings can discern the various elements of a photograph in mere seconds, the process is much harder for computers, which perceive pixels as a series of number values corresponding to changes in color.

Just what is meant by "artificial intelligence"? It has only been in recent years that we've come to see artificial intelligence as a reality and not something out of a science fiction story. Even now, we're still struggling to come up with an adequate definition of the term "artificial intelligence" which isn't surprising when you consider that after thousands of years, humans can't even decide on a definition for "intelligence." Put one way, artificial intelligence is a term given to computer systems that attempt to simulate human intelligence and learning. But even that definition is too big to wrap your head around. To simplify it, you can break artificial intelligence into two categories: Strong (or broad) AI, and weak (or narrow) AI.

Artificial intelligence is getting better at natural language processing. That means that people can ask increasingly complex questions of AI and still get an accurate answer. For instance, instead of asking what the current weather is, you can ask what it will be at a specific sporting event. The AI system can determine what is being asked, and search through the proper channels to find the answer. As AI becomes more advanced in this way, more businesses are going to turn to chatbots to resolve customer service issues and questions.

Every Monday morning, millions of Spotify users wake up to a "Discover Weekly" playlist that's been compiled based on the user's previous musical preferences. This custom playlist is put together by artificial intelligence and it's just one of the ways that artificial intelligence is being integrated into our daily lives. Artificial intelligence helps us decide what to watch next on Netflix and it uses facial recognition to automatically suggest Facebook friends to tag in a photo you've posted. Amazon uses artificial intelligence to suggest products you may be interested in based on previous purchase history and browsing behavior. If you think that the AI revolution is still forthcoming, you're mistaken; it's already begun.

Every Monday morning, millions of Spotify users wake up to a "Discover Weekly" playlist that's been compiled based on the user's previous musical preferences. This custom playlist is put together by artificial intelligence and it's just one of the ways that artificial intelligence is being integrated into our daily lives. Artificial intelligence helps us decide what to watch next on Netflix and it uses facial recognition to automatically suggest Facebook friends to tag in a photo you've posted. Amazon uses artificial intelligence to suggest products you may be interested in based on previous purchase history and browsing behavior. If you think that the AI revolution is still forthcoming, you're mistaken; it's already begun.

Artificial intelligence is getting better at natural language processing. That means that people can ask increasinglcomplex questions of AI and still get an accurate answer. For instance, instead of asking what the current weather is, you can ask what it will be at a specific sporting event. The AI system can determine what is being asked, and search through the proper channels to find the answer. As AI becomes more advanced in this way, more businesses are going to turn to chatbots to resolve customer service issues and questions.

Every Monday morning, millions of Spotify users wake up to a "Discover Weekly" playlist that's been compiled based on the user's previous musical preferences. This custom playlist is put together by artificial intelligence and it's just one of the ways that artificial intelligence is being integrated into our daily lives. Artificial intelligence helps us decide what to watch next on Netflix and it uses facial recognition to automatically suggest Facebook friends to tag in a photo you've posted. Amazon uses artificial intelligence to suggest products you may be interested in based on previous purchase history and browsing behavior. If you think that the AI revolution is still forthcoming, you're mistaken; it's already begun.

SILICON has been making our computers work for almost half a century. Whether designed for graphics or number crunching, all information processing is done using a million-strong horde of tiny logic gates made from element number 14. But silicon's time may soon be up. Moore's law – the prophecy which dictates that the number of silicon transistors on microprocessors doubles every two years – is grinding to a halt because there is a limit to how many can be squeezed on a chip. The machine-learning boom is another problem. The amount of energy silicon-based computers use is set to soar as they crunch more of the massive data sets that algorithms in this field require.

Just what is meant by artificial intelligence? It has only been in recent years that we ve come to see artificial intelligence as a reality and not something out of a science fiction story. Even now, we re still struggling to come up with an adequate definition of the term artificial intelligence which isn t surprising when you consider that after thousands of years, humans can t even decide on a definition for intelligence. Put one way, artificial intelligence is a term given to computer systems that attempt to simulate human intelligence and learning. But even that definition is too big to wrap your head around.