AI is not a matter of strength but of intelligence - Artificial Intelligence 2016

Francisco Webber offers a critical overview of current approaches to artificial intelligence using "brute force" (aka big data machine learning) as well as a practical demonstration of semantic folding, an alternative approach based on computational principles found in the human neocortex. Semantic folding is not just a research prototype--it's a production-grade enterprise technology. Francisco explores the theoretical underpinnings of semantic folding, which solves the representational problem and the semantic grounding problem--both well known by AI-researchers since the 1980s, and offers an introduction to the Retina Engine, an Apache Spark library for semantic processing of text. Along the way, Francisco demonstrates functional prototypes of semantic classification, semantic filtering, and semantic searching and explains the applications of semantic folding for the finance, media, automotive, legal, medical, and safety and security industries.