Visual Data and the 'Killer App' for AI – IoT For All – Medium

Today there are AI-powered apps that can tell you the breed of your dog or the species of a plant in seconds simply by taking a photo. When you upload an image to Facebook, your friends are identified immediately based on facial recognition technology. The ability for machines to do this specific type of analysis has, in some cases, surpassed humans, and the lifeblood of these advanced AI technologies is visual data. The entire concept of artificial intelligence is that machines can be built to perform the most human of tasks. In order to do that, they're modeled after human intelligence. For instance, the most cutting edge AI systems employ deep learning or deep neural networks that are modeled after the neural networks of the human brain.