By Qu Pei -Thanks to the leapfrog development of China's Internet industry, its social media platforms have attracted more and more overseas fans including a spate of big names.

The mainstream's first instinct was to allow their imaginations to run wild with the promise of'new intelligence accessible by all'. Now that expectations have been managed (yes, sex with robots is Westworld fiction...), we can get down to the real business of bettering business with the help of augmented intelligence. Machine learning is not a panacea, but it can be a powerful tool when matched to the right screw. Augmented intelligence is the AI of the hour, because a hybrid approach that couples machine learning and human input is driving initial results for new adopters. Technically, it's supervised learning and it's the first step before you start working with unsupervised learning or even ensemble models for that matter.