Artificial Intelligence's Next Phase: Sooner and More Accessible for Everyone

While handwriting recognition might be considered deep-learning 101, Japanese is a whole other ballgame. That's because the language includes symbolic characters such as kanji, which is composed of elements that can be read independently, making it difficult to know where one ends and another begins. There are also more than 2,000 common pictograms made up of dozens of strokes. The trick is to tackle one squiggle at a time. Reactive's algorithm queries the neural network for a match, adds another stroke and repeats, all the while refining the probability of an accurate hit.