The recent surveys, studies, forecasts and other quantitative assessments of the health and progress of AI highlighted the role of AI in cybersecurity defense and in scoring standardized tests, the relationships between data migrating to the cloud and data modernization, lax security standards for IoT devices, and that the U.S. still leads the global race for AI domination but that China is making more rapid progress.
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“AI will open a new chapter so that humans will know themselves better. Most of the projections about AI are wrong … people who are street-smart about AI are not scared by it”—Jack Ma
“Humans may become too slow. A millisecond is an eternity to a computer today. Computers are already smarter than human beings in many aspects [adding that while humans write AI software today, in the end the machine will do this itself]—Elon Musk
“The artificial intelligence software platforms market experienced steady growth in 2018, with revenue of $2.6 billion and a growth rate of 26.6%,” says David Schubmehl, research director, Cognitive/Artificial Intelligence Systems, IDC. ” IDC is seeing that in 2018 organizations have been moving from experimentation to production with the use of AI applications within their business processes. The AI software platforms market is seeing growth in providing the tools and capabilities that organizations are using to develop these applications. IDC expects to see this trend to continue, even though open source platforms and technologies are also seeing growth in this market.”
Source: Technavio
The recent surveys, studies, forecasts and other quantitative assessments of the health and progress of AI estimated the impact on productivity of human-machine collaboration, the number of jobs that could be automated in major U.S. cities, and the size of the future AI in retail and healthcare markets; and found AI optimism among the general population, algorithms outperforming (again) pathologists, and that our very limited understanding of how our brains learn may improve machine learning.
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26% of consumers think they interact with AI at least once a day; when they think of AI, 53% think primarily of robots and 40% think primarily of self-driving cars; 58% get their information on AI from movies and TV or social media
The surveys, studies, forecasts and other quantitative assessments of the health and progress of AI for this week find increased VC excitement over AI startups, low trust in AI advice by U.S. consumers and global business executives, China and Germany ahead of the US in the use of AI in healthcare while the US spends more, and the inaccuracy of facial recognition.
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