- 2016 proved to be a major year for AI - Thousands of AI startups emerged around the world - Companies invested billions of dollars in AI research and development- Machines ingested trillions upon trillions of pieces of data to train themselves to be experts in fields such as healthcare, financial services and customer service- In 2017, AI will even more rapidly revolutionize the way we work, live, and play
“From the hardware side of things, we will start seeing embedded devices with specialized architectures for running neural nets. Those things will pop out in self-driving cars, vacuum cleaners, maintenance robots, smart cameras, etc. Perhaps smart phones and tablets eventually.”
Yann LeCunn Founding Director of NYU Center of Data ScienceDirector of AI Research, Facebook
“In 2017, intelligence will surpass speed. Over the last several decades, nations have competed on speed, intent to build the world’s fastest supercomputer. In 2017, the race will shift. Nations of the world will compete on who has the smartest supercomputer, not solely the fastest.”
Jim McHugh
Vice President and General ManagerNVIDIA
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Ian Buck
“In 2017, there will be a chatbot that passes the Turing test, exhibiting responses so human-like that an average person wouldn’t be able to tell if it’s human or machine.”
“AI will become a standard feature in applications, not a novelty. It will also truly get pushed down to the consumer level and be front-and-center, not something that is just packaged under the hood of products, which will allow people to better understand AI and its benefits, hopefully reducing some of the fear you see in movies.”
“There will be almost a complete theoretical understanding of when and why deep networks work so well.”
Dr. Adam Coates
Director, Silicon Valley AI LabBaidu
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Tomaso Poggio“Deep Learning will keep taking AI systems to new levels of performance as parallel processing power increases. We’ll be able to crunch more data with bigger neural networks that are coming in 2017 and beyond.” MIT Computer Science and
Eric Horvitz Technical Fellow and Director - Microsoft Research
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“In the coming year, we will see advances that are used to endow systems with new human-centered qualities, including more natural, fluid conversation--that can address several topics or needs in one ongoing interaction, and deeper understanding of human values and intentions, such as recognizing the commitments we make to others in our email and text messaging. Continued …
“We will see advances aimed at providing systems with the ability to learn about the physical world via engaging in large numbers of trials within environments—both simulated and real. Such methods will boost the capabilities of AI systems to interact with people and objects in a safe and effective manner. While these advances will remain in the laboratory over the short term, the results will lead to acceleration in the fielding of novel robotics applications in the open world, in such realms as transportation, healthcare, and manufacturing.”
Technical Fellow and Director - Microsoft Research
“2017 will be the first year in which AI-generated art will achieve commercial success. An artist will use an AI-created element, like a song melody, in a piece of work which achieves mainstream notoriety.”
Bryan Catanzaro Vice President, Applied Deep Learning Research - NVIDIA
