Predictive Thursdays: Artificial Intelligence – The New Killer Feature

Artificial intelligence is gaining traction faster than anybody imagined – quickly knocking down the dominoes of complex tasks that computers have long struggled with. For example, in April this year, Wired Magazine ran an article explaining why AI still sucked at transcribing speech. But just six months later, AI is now as good as humans at listening! And there have been similarly dramatic advances in other areas. Adding machine learning to Google Translate has improved error rates by up to 85% since it was introduced a month and a half ago! "It has improved more in one single leap than in 10 years combined" -- The list goes on: Google's AI can already lip read better than people, and the company's image service is now better than people at recognizing and tagging images.