The year in AI/ML advances: 2018 roundup – Xavier Amatriain – Medium

It has become a sort of tradition for me to try to summarize ML advances at this time of the year (see here for my Quora answer last year, for example). As always, this summary will necessarily be biased by my own interests and focus, but I have tried to keep it as broad as possible. Note that what follows is a blog post version of my Quora answer here. Let's look at all of this in some more detail. If 2017 was probably the cusp of fear mongering and AI hype, 2018 seems to have been the year where we have started to all cool down a bit.