Machine learning: What to expect from AI and how it is changing our lives - iQ UK

Before looking ahead and seeing what tomorrow has in store, let's take a step back to find out about the history of artificial intelligence and what the main reasons behind its creation are. The first steps that led to the birth of this discipline date back to the 1600s. It was only in the last century, however--in 1959 to be exact--that Arthur Samuel, a pioneer in artificial intelligence, suggested that, instead of receiving everything they needed from programmers, computers could learn autonomously. This belief was consolidated over the years, and with the spread of the Internet and the increased use of sensors and mobile devices, it became possible to create and aggregate huge amounts of data from which machines are now able to extract meaningful information. In the world of artificial intelligence, machine learning (or automatic learning) represents a further step forward.