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Thursday, November 09, 2017

State of Machine Intelligence

Well done piece, with useful charting out of the state of intelligence.  Below just a brief excerpt:

The current state of machine intelligence 3.0
Watching the appeal and applications of machine intelligence expand.
By Shivon Zilis, James Cham  in O'Reilly 

" .... What's the biggest change in the last year? We are getting inbound inquiries from a different mix of people. For v1.0, we heard almost exclusively from founders and academics. Then came a healthy mix of investors, both private and public. Now overwhelmingly we have heard from existing companies trying to figure out how to transform their businesses using machine intelligence.

For the first time, a “one stop shop” of the machine intelligence stack is coming into view—even if it’s a year or two off from being neatly formalized. The maturing of that stack might explain why more established companies are more focused on building legitimate machine intelligence capabilities. Anyone who has their wits about them is still going to be making initial build-and-buy decisions, so we figured an early attempt at laying out these technologies is better than no attempt ..... " 

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