Machine Learning News: Machine Learning News Issue 45

Artificial intelligence, machine intelligence, cognitive computing - whatever you want to call machines that are capable of understanding and acting upon their environment - is no longer solely the purview of highly credentialed lab directors and deep-thinking computer scientists. Facebook today is talking for the first time about FBLearner Flow, a piece of software that manages machine learning models for employees throughout the social networking company. Way back in the last century, one of the most common put-downs of computers was the accusation that they only did what they were programmed to do. These days, it is increasingly common for marketing and many other kinds of systems to employ some variety of "machine learning," which moves away from the days when programmers dictated computers' every move. And pretty soon, they'll come for us.