5 most memorable milestones of 2016 of artificial intelligence

Every step of solid development, the AI ​​is trying to prove that it is an integral part of humanity.

2016 is a year of greater development than ever with artificial intelligence (and also the year people become ever more fearful with scary scenarios). We have self-driving cars of Tesla and Ford, we have world chess champion Lee Sedol defeated by an artificial intelligence, we have DeepMind, deep learning, machine learning and countless other advances.

And these are the best examples, the examples will definitely make you realize that the artificial intelligence system is getting more and more mature.

1. AlphaGo artificial intelligence defeats world champion in Go game

The start of 2016 is not bad at all, in January 2016, Google's DeepMind artificial intelligence company achieved great achievements in the field of deep learning . The AlphaGo program has been incredibly successful with the ability to master go game.

According to Demis Hassabis, the head of DeepMind, this milestone was 10 years earlier than expected. At the Joint Conference of the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence in February last year, Hassabis called the Go to " the most complex game that people left behind ", referring to the number of steps taken. can be created with the chess pieces.

2. Electric vehicle Tesla saves lives

Tesla's autonomous system is one of the most notable things in motor vehicles in particular and in the field of artificial intelligence in general. It carries within itself the ability to adjust speed, change lanes, and brake automatically . Despite some accidents, billionaire Elon Musk, Tesla's CEO also repeatedly stressed that his car was safe.

Elon Musk's affirmation was also confirmed by the National Security Council's parameters: for every 100 million miles, 1.3 people died but only one driver died on a self-driving car. 130 million miles total.

And besides, we have a concrete and optimistic example of Tesla's self-driving system: it helped a man with a sudden illness get to the hospital safely. It was Joshua Neally, who was on his way home from work and found a heart attack on the highway in Springfield, MO. At that time, the Tesla turned on the self-driving system, helped him reach the hospital and Neally recalled that, without this artificial intelligence system, he would have lost his life.

3. The AI ​​network predicts the correct horse racing results

Last May, the AI ​​platform called UNU correctly predicted the order of 4 racing horses in the Kentucky Derby 2016.

This AI network is an interactive online prediction tool for many people to find a joint decision of both Louis Rosenberg, CEO of Unanimous AI, the team that created this AI platform that says the system has done it. Unbelievably, accurately predicting the position of each race horse with a ratio of only 1/540.

4. Microsoft AI can listen to voice as good as human

Voice recognition, one of the indispensable aspects when it comes to artificial intelligence, especially at this time of 2016. In October, research reports from Microsoft showed that " For the first time in development history, automated voice recognition systems have been comparable to humans ."

To achieve this achievement, they used the neural network to " train " this artificial intelligence for 2,000 consecutive hours with a huge database.

5. AI helps identify cancer

" There has been a huge step forward in artificial intelligence in the health care sector ," said Roman Yampolskiy, head of the Online Security Laboratory at the University of Louisville.

For example, the IBM Watson system can detect health problems that doctors cannot find. More specifically, Watson found traces of leukemia in the blood of a Japanese woman, who was previously diagnosed as normal.

At the Houston Methodology Research Institute in Texas, the AI ​​system here can analyze tumor images 30 times faster than humans, its ability to detect cancer is up to 99% accurate.

Can the growth of AI in 2016 be considered as a great step forward for us or a disaster not far away for humanity?

The future is not foreseen, let alone enjoy the achievements that AI is currently bringing.