Machine Learning Trends and the Future of Artificial Intelligence 2016 – Emergent // Future

Digital data and cloud storage follow Moore's law: the world's data doubles every two years, while the cost of storing that data declines at roughly the same rate. This abundance of data enables more features, and better machine learning models to be created. "In the world of intelligent applications, data will be king, and the services that can generate the highest-quality data will have an unfair advantage from their data flywheel -- more data leading to better models, leading to a better user experience, leading to more users, leading to more data," Somasegar says. For instance, Tesla has collected 780 million miles of driving data, and they're adding another million every 10 hours. This data is feed into Autopilot, their assisted driving program that uses ultrasonic sensors, radar, and cameras to steer, change lanes, and avoid collisions with little human interaction.