Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence: Main Developments in 2017 and Key Trends in 2018

At KDnuggets, we try to keep our finger on the pulse of main events and developments in industry, academia, and technology. We also do our best to look forward to key trends on the horizon. To close out 2017, we recently asked some of the leading experts in Big Data, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning for their opinion on the most important developments of 2017 and key trends they 2018. This post, the first in this series of such year-end wrap-ups, considers what happened in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence this year, and what may be on the horizon for 2018. "What were the main machine learning & artificial intelligence related developments in 2017, and what key trends do you see in 2018?"