AI is the ability to train computers to observe the world around them, gather information from it, draw conclusions from that data, and then take some kind of action based on those actions.
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And suddenly, just like that, you had to add artificial intelligence to the list of new technologies you need to learn about and implement.
If you feel that way, it’s understandable. In the past year or so, artificial intelligence, or AI for short, has jumped off the movie screen and onto pretty much every industry news story you read, or email you get.
If all those killer-cyborg movies we saw growing up are any indication, then AI sounds like pretty serious stuff. Or at least something that’s going to be complicated to learn and difficult to use… assuming you know what it can be used for in the first place.
Both assumptions are partly correct. AI does represent a next-generation leap forward in terms of power, functionality and …