Top 5 Insights After I Spent 100 Days Learning About Artificial Intelligence

At the end of January 2019, it suddenly dawned on me that my understanding of artificial intelligence was insufficient. It is increasingly impacting our every day. AI defends our inboxes from spam, it powers weather updates from Alexa, it enables Amazon to recommend a purchase or Netflix to suggest a movie. Every time we open Twitter or Facebook, it's human versus an AI that knows us better than we know ourselves. Yet here I was -- a professed technologist with so little awareness of what AI actually is.