Free Training Courses on Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
When the world’s smartest companies such as Microsoft, Google, Alphabet Inc., and Baidu are investing heavily in Artificial Intelligence (AI), the world is going to sit up and take notice. Chinese Internet giant Baidu spent USD1.5 billion on research and development. And as proof of China’s strong focus on AI and Machine Learning, Sinovation Ventures, a venture capital firm, invested USD0.1 billion in “25 AI-related startups” in the last three years in China and the U.S. Research shows that although genuine intelligence may still be a bit far off, AI and Machine Learning technologies are still expected to reign in 2017. Try reading up on Microsoft Project Oxford, IBM Watson, Google Deep Mind, and Baidu Minwa, and you’ll understand what I am trying to get at. In 2015, Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies introduced Machine Learning (ML), and the graph showed (Figure 1) that it would reach a plateau in 2 to 5 years. Big players such as Facebook and A...
