PODCAST: Airbnb, Machine Learning and the Future of Travel HPE Newsroom

When people talk about artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), they tend to make them sound like technologies of a distant future – smarter and more customized versions of everything we use every day. What they may not realize is that early applications of these technologies are already part of today's reality. This week on STACK That, we sit down with Airbnb, a company that is making great strides in their AI journey in one of the most exciting applications for machine learning -- the travel industry. "Airbnb has been using machine learning in our products for years," says Mike Curtis, VP of Engineering at Airbnb. "…everything from how we recommend prices to our hosts, understanding the value of their space, to how we do search ranking, and that really comes down to matching between our guest and hosts, as well as all the things we do to detect fraud and keep our communities safe."