Beyond Artificial Intelligence
The year 2016 witnessed rapid strides in IT, moving us closer to what futurists call a singularity — AI (including sub disciplines such ad machine learning, deep learning, etc.) led unprecedented technology change resulting in a fundamental shift from the unrivalled dominance of human decision making. AI took the center-stage in 2016. IBM Watson’s prowess in cancer diagnosis and treatment is impressive. According to a University of North Carolina School of Medicine study, Watson recommended the same treatment as oncologists in 99 per cent of cases. More interestingly, Watson found treatment options that oncologists had missed in 30 per cent of the cases.The march of progress in emerging sub-domains of AI like deep learning has also been impressive in 2016. The most spectacular was Google’s DeepMindAlphaGo system beating Lee Sedol,…
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