Artificial intelligence: current trends and future developments - SHP Online

The term artificial intelligence (AI) has been around since the 1950s. However, it's only within the last five years that excitement about it has really begun to grow. This excitement is, in part, due to a new technique called'deep learning'. This is where artificial systems'learn' (in that they make and strengthen connections), through repeatedly working through large numbers of examples. The systems consist of networks of artificial'brain cells' (or neurons) that combine signals and send them between different layers within the network.