Machine learning and Artificial Intelligence seem to dominate the tech media nowadays. Lots of startups in the analytics field are being bought up by the tech giants. There also is a lot of fear of AI taking over more and more types of jobs such as: Automated Investment companies like Wealthfront or Betterment. IBT recently had an article discussing a report put out by Stanford title Artificial Intelligence and Life in 2030 (it's a PDF). The report breaks out various trends related to AI such as: Large-scale machine learning Deep learning - (defined as convolutional neural network machine learning) Reinforcement learning - a field of machine learning where the machine "learns" from it's mistakes. The report then goes into some of the great strides in AI that have taken place over the last few years.