Microsoft Unveils Lobe; Will this Make AI Mainstream?

The complexity of artificial intelligence (AI) machine learning requires specialized knowledge and experience. Microsoft hopes to change that. Today Microsoft provided a general preview of Lobe, a software application available at no charge that enables anyone to build machine learning models--no technical skills required. Recent trends such as decentralized cloud computing, adaptation of GPU for general computing, increasing availability of big data sets, and advances in deep learning, a subset of AI machine learning, has spurred a modern-day AI gold rush. Global investment in AI in just half a decade has soared across sectors and geographies.