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A Quick Artificial Intelligence Update - ODBMS.org

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Artificial Intelligence is offering the kind of revolution mankind first saw a 100 years ago with electricity, with Andrew Ng, the former Chief Scientist at Baidu claiming he can't think of an industry it won't disrupt in the next 10 years. Google's AI stands at the point where it can recognize user doodles and translate what they're trying to draw; IBM's Watson is quickly expanding its cognitive computing platform across multiple industries; Alexa can now tell you what's in the news, call you an Uber, book you a flight, and incessantly wakes me up to finish my real analysis homework every morning. With more than 35 acquisitions in 2017 and over 200 rounds of financing since 2012, the race for intelligence is picking up fast; Google itself has acquired 11 AI companies. Big Data and increased processing power, which was considered the limiting constraint handicapping the development of AI have picked up the pace in 2016, but with increased horsepower through products such as NVidia's GPUs, and Intel's AI chips, such constraints have decreased. Just in the past month, Elon Musk launched Neuralink, a venture to merge the human brain with AI, NVidia's deep-learning chips showed promise of disrupting the medicine industry, Bots were reported to be chatting in their own language and companies such as Forbes and Intel showed promising signs of boosting AI efforts.