Alibaba Cloud Wants to Democratize Artificial Intelligence Tech - Alizila

Alibaba Cloud, the cloud-computing arm of Alibaba Group, is making artificial intelligence (AI) technology more accessible to businesses and organizations with the debut of an upgraded machine-learning platform. Called PAI 2.0, the platform, which launched in 2015, will "help customers easily deploy large-scale data mining and modeling," Alibaba Cloud said in a statement. Machine learning is a branch of AI that gives computers the ability to absorb information, discern patterns in data and adapt to new input without explicit programming. China's first publicly available machine-learning platform, PAI is a suite of tools and AI software algorithms that allows businesses without an AI background to make practical use of Alibaba Cloud's ET program, an "artificial brain" that the company is using to solve complex problems such as predicting the winner of a popular Chinese reality TV show and helping to ease traffic congestion in the city of Hangzhou, China. "In the past year, Alibaba Cloud has implemented a number of real-life AI applications for customers across industries," said Alibaba Cloud Chief Scientist Dr. Jingren Zhou.