Data Drives AI Businesses

Yao Xin is Founder of PPLIVE and an alumnus of the 3rd CEIBS Entrepreneurial Leadership Camp. "Why is there so much discussion about artificial intelligence these days? I think it's likely because of last year's Man vs Machine battle between world Go champion Lee Sedol and Google DeepMind's artificial intelligence programme AlphaGo. In 1996 Chess Grandmaster Garry Kasparov won four out of a series of six chess matches played against the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue. What happened in the 20 years between these two events? What has caused today's big breakthroughs in artificial intelligence? I believe AlphaGo's victory is the result of a completely new deep learning algorithm. The rise of deep learning represents the beginning of the third wave of artificial intelligence, a revolution that has seen the learning and programming done by humans transformed into autonomous learning by machines, which is a significant change.