Where Is AI Headed in 2018?
Publications like The Wall Street Journal, Forbes and Fortune have all called 2017 “The Year of AI.” And with good reason. AI outperformed professional gamers and poker players in new realms. Access to deep learning education expanded through various online programs. The speech recognition accuracy record was broken multiple times, most recently by Microsoft. And research universities and organizations like Oxford, Massachusetts General Hospital and GE’s Avitas Systems invested in deep learning supercomputers. These are a few of many milestones in 2017. So what’s next? We’ve gathered predictions from the world’s leading researchers and industry thought leaders.