What Artificial Intelligence Means For Startup Neon Roots

There's been a lot of press recently about Artificial Intelligence, or AI. Put simply, AI can be defined as the "capability of a machine to imitate intelligent human behavior" – in this case, the fairly unique human trait of intelligence. But intelligence can mean a lot of things – anything from finding the shortest distance from A to B to detecting a cancerous cell in a collection of thousands of slide photos. To understand why AI is such a popular news topic these days, we first have to understand what it is. The first thing to understand about AI is there are two distinct types: weak AI, which we can think of as specific intelligence, and strong AI, which we can think of as general intelligence.