AI: Why Now? – AVC

UK-based VC David Kelnar wrote an excellent primer on Artificial Intelligence that is a relatively quick read and helps explain the technology and its advancement over the past sixty years since the term was coined in the mid 1950s. I like this chart which explains the relationship between AI, machine learning, and deep learning. But my favorite part of David's post is his explanation of why AI has taken off in the past five years, as this chart shows: Like most non-linear curves, it is not one thing, but a number of things happening simultaneously, that is causing this explosion of interest. Research is constantly coming up with better ways to train models and machines. The same chips that make graphics come alive on your screen are used to train models, and these chips are improving rapidly.