Samsung envisions life transformed by artificial intelligence

Article by Sunggy Koo, Samsung Electronics vice president of smart appliance AI, where are we now and where are we going? Since it was first envisioned in the 1950s, AI has made a palpable impact on our lives, giving us practical speech recognition, more effective web search and self-driving cars, among other innovations. Earlier this month, Google's AlphaGo AI program made news by mastering the ancient Chinese board game Go in just three days without any human assistance. This major advance comes just two decades after Deep Blue crushed chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov, illustrating that AI has not only come a long way in a short time but is on track to creating unthinkable opportunities across all industries that will add new value to our lives. The recent explosion in AI is enabled by a number of factors including a wider availability of GPUs, virtually infinite amounts of data, and more advanced machine and deep learning algorithms.