What will happen with Artificial Intelligence in 2019? - Csongor Barabasi Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning Expert

You can read the post in Romanian here. The majority of advancement and business value of AI in 2018 was driven by Deep Learning (if the difference between Deep Learning and AI is not very clear, I recommend first checking out this post). Beside driving business value, Deep Learning combined with Reinforcement Learning had some funny achievements, being able to defeat a team of 5 professional Dota 2 players. The OpenAI team behind the development of this bot confirmed that the algorithm was learning and exploring the Dota world all by itself (more information can be found here). Let's explore a few important facts about the AI market for 2018, because "numbers don't lie": Even though some numbers are impressive, there is still room to grow. In 2018 many applications of AI were explored, some of them did not drive business value at all, they rather focused on algorithmic advancements and complexity.