GEORGE KRASADAKIS
PRODUCER & EDITOR OF THE ‘60 LEADERS’ SERIES • IRELAND
Artificial Intelligence is probably one of the most popular and hyped technology terms of our time. But, beyond the media hype, there is a real revolution happening. To understand the potential, just consider the recent advances in domains like Computer Vision or Natural Lan- guage Processing and their applications.
The ability of a computer to ‘see’ is an astonishing achievement. AI- powered systems can ‘understand’ the context of an image or a video at an impressive level of detail. They can identify a growing set of entities — such as persons, named individuals, cars, buildings, and eventually any object — with increasing levels of accuracy. For example, given an image or video, algorithms can estimate properties such as the number of per- sons in the picture, their gender, age, their emotional state, or even the occasion and the dynamics. Computer Vision is making huge steps, with massive applications in autonomous cars, navigation, robotics, medical diagnosis, and more.
A chat with one of the popular digital assistants like Alexa or Siri is sufficient to demonstrate the advances of Natural Language Processing technologies. Digital assistants are becoming more intelligent, contex- tual, and proactive – they continuously learn by leveraging every single interaction with the user. At some point soon, digital assistants will be- come autonomous by seamlessly leveraging deep knowledge about the user, signals from the user’s environment, and global trends and dynam- ics. Your digital assistant will respond naturally, in a conversational mode, and possibly with a style, attitude, and humor that matches your personality and your current mood. …
