5 ways AI is already making a difference in society

By now, everyone and their grandparents are talking about machine learning and AI. Unfortunately, many people have been questioning whether all this effort is worth it, and some are worried about future job losses. Just yesterday at an event, someone said to me, "The world invested so much money into image recognition just so we could recognize a cat. My response was, "Well, a machine recognizing a cat is the first step toward a machine detecting and recognizing a tumor." If you cut through the hype and use a strategic goal, machine learning can offer real-world value.