SD Times Blog: Machine learning is the new SOA - SD Times

It seems almost comical to think that artificial intelligence and machine learning are becoming, or rather have become, full-blown buzzwords. First of all, according to the annals of science fiction literature, we should have already invented a smarter-than-human AI by now, and according to "Terminator," we're 19 years overdue for a giant, AI-based nuclear annihilation of the human race. I prefer the 1970 movie, "Colossus: The Forbin Project," a film that does not appreciate the premise that the United States could, alone, create a computer smart enough to take over the world. Colossus, you see, required the help of its Soviet counterpart. The world of AI is far more scientific and mundane than this, however. Its history is littered with startups, hardware firms and software projects that were often just as much a product of the times as they were products of machine-learning advances.