Looking at the Future of SaaS, AI, and IT Through Experts' Eyes - DZone IoT

Technology is advancing at record speed as innovations that were a foggy prediction came to life one after the other. This passing month, I decided to explore "future studies" and browsed the web for the latest advancements in the tech world, and especially AI, IT, and SaaS. An artificial intelligence agent developed by two Carnegie Mellon University computer science students has proven to be the game's ultimate survivor -- outplaying both the game's built-in AI agents and human players. The students, Devendra Chaplot and Guillaume Lample, used deep-learning techniques to train the AI agent to negotiate the game's 3-D environment, still challenging after more than two decades because players must act based only on the portion of the game visible on the screen. People have started noticing self-driving Uber cars in downtown San Francisco, fueling speculation the ridesharing company could soon be deploying autonomous vehicles for commercial use right where it all started, in the Bay Area.