Artificial Intelligence Will Redefine the World - InformationWeek

No doubt you've heard (or read) quite a lot about artificial intelligence (AI) lately. Some herald it is as a business and technology revolution, while others, notably Elon Musk, view it as an existential threat to humanity. Of course, the truth lies somewhere in between, and most of us have yet to even experience AI in a substantive way. Last month at Interop ITX, we sat down with James McCaffrey, a senior research scientist at Microsoft Research and expert on neural networks, to talk about what exactly AI means and where it is heading. According to McCaffrey, AI and associated technologies like machine learning and deep learning are nothing new.