IBM updates PowerAI to make deep learning more accessible ZDNet

IBM on Wednesday is announcing significant updates to PowerAI, its deep learning software distribution package, making it faster for data scientists to deploy deep learning models and easier for developers to integrate computer vision into their applications. Analysts say that artificial intelligence has reached a tipping point where it's being integrated into just about every service, product, or integration, but there are still major challenges for the data scientists and developers interested in exploiting AI. Some sectors like financial services have had data scientists on staff for at least five or 10 years, but they've only recently started deploying deep learning methods. PowerAI "gives them these higher level tools that much it make easier and automated," IBM VP Sumit Gupta told ZDNet. "You still have data scientists guiding the whole process, but we're removing some of the steps."