FROM THE ARCHIVES OF PRAGPUB MAGAZINE, SEPTEMBER 2019
It’s Just Artificial Intelligence: What’s Different Now
by Eric Redmond
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Artificial intelligence is not one field, but many. Eric builds a map of the whole complex landscape of AI.
Last month Eric covered the history of AI. This month he delves into the technologies themselves.
Fueled by a boom in a branch of AI called machine learning (ML), AI has emerged from an academic curiosity to changing the world in practice. How did we get here? A handful of shifts in the technology landscape have contributed to this AI resurgence over the past decade, and these core investments are poised to keep bringing new cognitive capabilities to bear on an ever-wider array of goods and services. These improvements have risen from three coequal changes: better hardware, democratization of algorithms and…
