5 Hot AI & Machine Learning Trends for 2018

First, let's look at what these fancy technology terms actually mean. According to Arthur Samuel, a machine learning pioneer, Machine Learning is a field of study that gives computers the ability to learn without being explicitly programmed. AI, on the other hand, is not just one technology, it is a broad field constituting many disciplines from robotics to machine learning. The ultimate goal of AI, most of us affirm, is to build machines capable of performing tasks and cognitive functions that are otherwise only within the scope of human intelligence. In order to get there, machines must be able to learn these capabilities automatically instead of having each of them explicitly programmed end-to-end.