Machine Learning, Deep Learning & the Wisdom of the Crowd

To understand how artificial intelligence is fundamentally changing how Jumio verifies online IDs and identities, you must first understand two concepts you've likely heard of: machine learning and deep learning. Definitionally, machine learning are algorithms that parse data, learn from that data, and then apply what they've learned to make informed decisions. So rather than hand-coding software routines with a specific set of instructions to accomplish a particular task, the machine is "trained" using large amounts of data and algorithms that give it the ability to learn how to perform the task. They're only capable of what they're designed for; nothing more, nothing less. As it turned out, one of the very best application areas for machine learning was classical computer vision, though it still required a great deal of hand-coding of specific features to get the job done.