Artificial Intelligence: beyond the hype – Hacker Noon

Media love both success stories of AI and'dystopias driven by Artificial Intelligence: machines replacing human workers, AI exceeding human intelligence, robots taking control and so on. But, if you look beyond this hype, you will realize that there is a real revolution in progress. To understand the potential of AI, just examine the recent advances in fields like Deep Learning and their applications in domains such as Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing. There is a massive disruption in progress -- powered by a combination of technologies, enabling machines to make sense of massive volumes of data and perform cognitive functions. Artificial Intelligence can be defined as'the technology enabling systems to encapsulate cognitive functions along with adaptive and learning capabilities -- leading to self-improvement'.