Cutting through the AI hype – Data Driven Investor – Medium

By means of the famously cited '10 man' Dartmouth Summer Conference, the research field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) was already established in 1956. The elite workshop was attended by John McCharty (Dartmouth College), Marvin Minsky (Harvard University), Nathaniel Rochester (IBM) and Claude Shannon (Bell Telephone Laboratories), amongst others. However, the public debate about AI has just begun. After more than half a century of intensive research and development, the technology finally made it into mainstream business: Netflix and Amazon are recommending films and books to you. Due to massive amounts of big data, generated by millions of individual users, it is calculated whether you could potentially like'Bird Box' when you already watched'La Casa del Papel' and'Narcos'.