7 Predictions for AI in 2019

We've gotten sloppy in our language. It's convenient to use AI as shorthand for deep learning -- and it gets good hits in headlines. But these days, general AI -- machines learning on their own like curious humans browsing in a bookstore -- is still more science fiction than science. What's spreading like wildfire through the internet these days are deep neural networks, a special case of AI based on processes typically initiated by people. The ability of deep-learning techniques to recognize patterns in images, speech, and other areas -- often faster than people can -- has opened a door to a whole new direction in computing.