Machine Learning and the Future of Artificial Intelligence

The author recently completed a wonderful course in Machine Learning taught by Prof Andrew Ng of Stanford on Coursera. Machine Learning, more popularly known as Artificial Intelligence or AI is not a new topic. AI has been in the making for over 60 years. But it has started delivering creditable results in the last few years. The success of the driverless car has captured the popular imagination but progress in the areas of image recognition, natural language processing and anomaly detection is no less impressive and has applications across sectors.