Some Top AI Trends For 2018: Self-Driving Everything, Algorithm Whisperers, And More

This year will see the rapid growth of products, services, and business processes that use the power of machine learning algorithms to automatically get better as more people use them – just as self-driving systems get better at navigating roads over time by recognizing patterns and learning from any mistakes. Artificial intelligence is designed to maximize certain behaviors ("get to the destination without crashing the car"), based on the data provided (camera, lidar, traffic rules, etc). But bad data or badly chosen KPIs can lead to unethical and biased results. For example, if your new, automated HR processes are taught using prior hiring data that was full of human bias, the resulting algorithm will also be biased. And we often observe sub-optimal behavior from human beings because of badly designed incentive plans – the principle difference with AI is that it will do the bad things much faster and more effectively!