The Future of AI: Meet the Multi-Tasking Machines

To commemorate the silver jubilee of FICO's use of artificial intelligence and machine learning, we asked FICO employees a question: What does the future of AI look like? The post below is one of the thought-provoking responses, from Chahm An, a lead analytic scientist at FICO, working in San Diego. Artificial intelligence, like human intelligence, uses observations from the past to learn a general model that can be used to make predictions about future similar occurrences. The future I see for AI is based on current work being done in this field, and grounded in what I saw 20 years ago, when I first began to study AI. In 1997, and IBM's Deep Blue had just defeated reigning world champion Garry Kasparov at the game of chess in what was seen as a landmark event of artificial intelligence surpassing a human champion at an intellectual challenge.