Blog: How machine learning helps itself to optimise Access AI

Machine learning seems to be the new hot topic these days. Everybody is talking about it since we've been seeing machines beat human players in chess, jeopardy, and now even Go. Our cars will be driven by artificial intelligence in the future, our jobs will be taken over by robots. There's a lot of hype, a lot of fear and uncertainty – as so often when new technology has the potential to disrupt our societies. However, when you talk to the people that are actually involved in developing these new types of intelligent algorithms, you get a quite different picture. Today, there's a lot of manual work involved in automating decision processes.