Bits: Artificial Intelligence Software Is Booming. But Why Now? https://t.co/Zej3Qtx3xV
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New York Times Quentin Hardy har svaret i dagens New York Times:
Artificial Intelligence Software Is Booming. But Why Now?
Much of today’s A.I. boom goes back to 2006, when Amazon started selling cheap computing over the internet. Those measures built the public clouds of Amazon, Google, IBM and Microsoft, among others. That same year, Google and Yahoo released statistical methods for dealing with the unruly data of human behavior. In 2007, Apple released the first iPhone, a device that began a boom in unruly-data collection everywhere.
Suddenly, old A.I. experiments were relevant, and money and cheap data resources were available for building new algorithms. Ten years later, computing is cheaper than ever, companies live online and in their phone apps, and sensors are bringing even more unruly data from more places.
Amazon, Google and the rest have exceptional A.I. resources for sale, but many older companies are wary of turning their data over to these upstarts. That, along with fear of a competitor getting on top of A.I. first, is a big motivation for some to try things out.
Så datormolnen med sina billiga datorresurser har varit en pådrivande faktor. Och den trenden kommer att fortsätta och göra det möjligt för små team och t.om. för individer att skriva AI-appar i molnen.