Why This Skeptic Believes in Artificial Intelligence

"Unicorn," for example, a rare private company valued at more than 1 billion, is a description that outwore its welcome once there were so many of them. In other words, I need convincing that the latest hot topic in Silicon Valley is worth the effort to understand. Reading Roger Parloff's insightful feature in the current issue of Fortune, "Why Deep Learning Is Suddenly Changing Your Life," I became convinced about the catch-all phrase artificial intelligence and its subset fields of study, including machine learning and deep learning, also knowns as deep neural nets. There isn't space here to do justice to this complex topic. But one quote from Parloff's masterful story might convince you to take the time to go deeper.