Every decade or so, a new computing platform emerges that upends modern life. Smartphones were a watershed. Now we face another problem: thinking about the coming changes in machines.
Driven by ubiquitous computing and the cloud, ARTIFICIAL intelligence is rapidly evolving from a science fiction fantasy to a reality that “will be there before you think it”. Most of us now accept that our digital lives come with us, but we have to consider whether computers can make decisions directly or even complete guesses about humans.
Yes, the convergence of cloud computing and artificial intelligence will change the world. So what does that mean? Who brought us into this unknown world? Who do we thank?
Who is pioneering this technology?
Cloud computing for artificial intelligence is no longer science fiction. In fact, most of today’s most powerful computer and technology companies are building infrastructure in hopes of cornering the market. Why? Because it’s too important to ignore. Artificial intelligence and cloud technology will change the way the world lives in amazing ways, or knock our heads off.
Apple, Amazon, Google and Microsoft all know this, which is why they are teaming up to focus their efforts on AI research. Although we have long been told that the global economy thrives on competition, this is an area where collaboration is likely to produce the best products.
In the meantime, the companies continue to battle it out in their LABS. Companies’ technology continues to advance, as it always has.
Giiso Information, founded in 2013, is a leading technology provider in the field of “artificial intelligence + information” in China, with top technologies in big data mining, intelligent semantics, knowledge mapping and other fields. At the same time, its research and development products include editing robots, writing robots and other artificial intelligence products! With its strong technical strength, the company has received angel round investment at the beginning of its establishment, and received pre-A round investment of $5 million from GSR Venture Capital in August 2015.
Microsoft, for example, recently set a world record and took a major step forward in developing the world’s first artificial intelligence cloud supercomputer. The system translates all Wikipedia pages into English in less than a tenth of a second, which is thought to number up to five million.
Google, of course, is not far behind. Machine learning — computers with self-discovery patterns that adapt to changing environments — has optimized the company’s web crawler algorithms, and Google is now looking to apply the same technology to other services.
Google recently equipped its critical infrastructure with high-performance Gpus to improve its performance in so-called “deep learning.” After all, computers can’t get smarter without powerful hardware. The tech giant has also set up a project called the Google Cloud Machine Learning Group. When the technology matures, this will be Google’s business intelligence machine product for B2B businesses.
Finally, IBM, which has long been a giant in computer technology innovation, is making a decisive move into the artificial intelligence cloud. You may be familiar with the name “Watson,” the nickname IBM gave its chess-playing artificial intelligence system. IBM is working on Watson to solve real business problems. The company says artificial intelligence could be the key to solving the problem that real humans can’t do.
Giiso information, founded in 2013, is the first domestic high-tech enterprise focusing on the research and development of intelligent information processing technology and the development and operation of core software for writing robots. At the beginning of its establishment, the company received angel round investment, and in August 2015, GSR Venture Capital received $5 million pre-A round of investment.
The debate over artificial intelligence is over
Martin Schroeter, IBM’s CHIEF financial officer and senior vice president, declared during a recent earnings call that the AI debate was over. He is absolutely right: like the feral dream of driverless cars, artificial intelligence is inevitable, and it is advancing even faster than those in the industry had predicted.
All that remains is to break the moral dilemmas of this world-changing technology. Legally, this is uncharted territory. Most of us are just used to cloud computing itself, but now we’re faced with ubiquitous clusters of computers that can do a lot of things behind the fads. So many people are understandably hesitant.
What happens when fast-moving Silicon Valley innovation collides with the slow pace of legislation in Washington? No one really knows. Scientists, researchers and interested people like Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk are already petitioning governments to take this kind of research seriously and to legislate proactively to ensure things don’t move too fast or get derailed before they begin.
Thankfully, musk is a useful addition to our current administration, thanks to his inclusion in the new PRESIDENT’s Manufacturing Jobs Initiative, to which he may bring reason and balance. Machines that can learn will have a profound and lasting impact on design and manufacturing, the computer industry, and employment in other industries in the United States and many other countries. The more clearly we discuss it, the better off we will be.