9 Top AI and Machine Learning Trends for 2021

AI is getting better at supporting multiple modalities within a single ML model, such as text, vision, speech and IoT sensor data. Developers are starting to find innovative ways to combine modalities to improve common tasks like document understanding, said David Talby, founder and CTO of John Snow Labs, an NLP tools provider. For example, patient data collected and processed by healthcare systems can include visual lab results, genetic sequencing reports, clinical trial forms and other scanned documents. The layout and presentation style of this information, if done right, can help doctors better understand what they're looking at. AI algorithms trained using multi-modal techniques such as machine vison and optical character recognition could optimize the presentation of results, improving medical diagnosis.