Kevin Nandraina

…y ears, fur, a tail, funny looks, ..), and then find a way to represent this in a computer program. The more complex the task, the more resources it required to be automated, assuming a human could understand it in the first place.

With AI on the other hand, there is no need to actually understand what’s going on, since the machine will learn to reproduce the behavior by itself. To do so, a human engineer compiles a large set of example data, and feeds it to a generic machine learning algorithm that then learns to reproduce the behavior in the examples. The human engineer no longer has to understand what a cat is; she simply has to give the computer e…

…ge sets of data — made it possible to teach machines instead of programming them. Said differently, AI became possible because we invested massively into Cloud Computing and Big Data.