Where Deep Learning Meets GIS

The field of artificial intelligence (AI) has progressed rapidly in recent years, matching or, in some cases, even surpassing human accuracy at tasks such as image recognition, reading comprehension, and translating text. The intersection of AI and GIS is creating massive opportunities that weren't possible before. AI, machine learning, and deep learning are helping us make the world better by helping, for example, to increase crop yield through precision agriculture, fight crime by deploying predictive policing models, and predict when the next big storm will hit and being better equipped to handle it. Broadly speaking, AI is the ability of computers to perform a task that typically requires some level of human intelligence. Machine learning is one type of engine that makes this possible.