The future of machine learning: 5 trends to watch around algorithms, cloud, IoT, and big data

No one can predict the future of technology with 100 percent accuracy. But these four pillars are certainly at the forefront of innovation in the years ahead. Speaking at a machine learning and artificial intelligence event hosted by Madrona Venture Group in Seattle on Wednesday, Joseph Sirosh, corporate VP of the Data Group at Microsoft, outlined five trends to watch in a world he described as "ACID": Algorithm, Cloud, IoT, and Data. "We live in a time of great change in computing, where unreasonable effectiveness of algorithms, cloud, IoT, and data are changing how applications are built, period," he said. "Even if you are on the right track, if you don't hop on this bandwagon and actually build things and deploy them and take advantage of their strength, you won't be very effective."