Nate and his teams specialize in custom software development, web design and digital marketing. Artificial intelligence (AI) conjures a lot of unique imagery depending on your background and how much exposure to the topic you've had. For some people, AI looks and feels like something out of The Terminator or 2001: A Space Odyssey -- an oppressive, human-like intelligence that poses an existential threat. To some, AI is simply a fancy name for digital assistants like Siri or Cortana. Of course, if you have a lot of development experience, you know the line between AI and any other kind of computer programming is blurry and that in some ways, a basic pocket calculator could be considered AI.

Nate and his teams specialize in custom software development, web design and digital marketing. Artificial intelligence (AI) conjures a lot of unique imagery depending on your background and how much exposure to the topic you've had. For some people, AI looks and feels like something out of The Terminator or 2001: A Space Odyssey -- an oppressive, human-like intelligence that poses an existential threat. To some, AI is simply a fancy name for digital assistants like Siri or Cortana. Of course, if you have a lot of development experience, you know the line between AI and any other kind of computer programming is blurry and that in some ways, a basic pocket calculator could be considered AI.

This is an article I had originally written as part of a stream of work that has now been put on hold indefinitely. I thought it a shame for it to languish in OneNote. Well that is a very good question. To be perfectly frank, not that much has changed of late in the world of Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a whole that should justify all the current excitement. That's not to say that there isn't cool stuff going on; there really is great progress being made… in the world of Machine Learning.

There have been many publications in various fields from Google over the years but the AI publications trend shows how Google is trying to transform it to an AI company in future. Google publications include several fields like climate change, neurosciences, computer vision, computer games,etc. Google's growing investment in artificial intelligence, particularly deep learning, a technique whose ability to make sense of images and other data is enhancing services like search, translation and speech detection. According to Technology review, it published 218 journal or conference papers on machine learning in 2016, nearly twice as many as it did two years ago. Google also hiring many Machine learning and AI researches and almost tripled its researchers headcount over few years.