The Next Step for Artificial Intelligence Is Machines that Get Smarter on Their Own - IEEE - The Institute

Have you ever used a voice-activated service such as Apple's Siri only to find it completely missed what you were saying? Or played a game against a computer and felt it didn't even put up a fight? That's about to change with advances in deep learning, which improves computers' ability to process information and make decisions--like people do, and oftentimes even better. Deep-learning techniques allow a computer system to connect the dots from many different areas of knowledge, similar to how the human brain works, to make the best decision possible. Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and other tech companies are in a race to apply deep learning to make machines intelligent without much help from the programmers.