These Were The Best Machine Learning Breakthroughs Of 2016

What were the main advances in machine learning/artificial intelligence in 2016? Everyone now seems to be doing machine learning, and if they are not, they are thinking of buying a startup to claim they do. Now, to be fair, there are reasons for much of that "hype". Can you believe that it has been only a year since Google announced they were open sourcing Tensor Flow? TF is already a very active project that is being used for anything ranging from drug discovery to generating music.