From D/SRUPTION: 

For the majority of people, it wasn’t long ago that Artificial Intelligence was synonymous with digital personal assistants like Siri and Cortana. AI research was kept largely under the radar, and confined to big technology companies. 2017 proved this has never been further from the case. AI is now a business necessity when it comes to understanding and analysing valuable data. Aside from dealing with data, AI is now used by companies across the spectrum to automate processes, detect fraud, respond to customer queries and carry out menial, but important, administrative tasks. Artificial Intelligence is only improving. What were the most important developments of 2017, and how will they shape the future of AI?

1. Swarm AI predicts TIME’s Person of the Year

TIME Magazine’s 90 year tradition of naming a Person of the Year. The winner isn’t necessarily everyone’s favourite candidate, but rather the individual (or, as the case may be, the social movement) that has most influenced the news. In 2016, San Francisco based AI company Unanimous AI correctly predicted that Donald Trump would win. Last year, they did it again, successfully naming the #MeToo campaign as the winner. Unanimous AI used Swarm AI technology to ask 60 members of the public who was least likely to win in each round, whittling down the 33 potential candidates by process of elimination. AI improves over time, and therefore so will the accuracy of its predictions.

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The Biggest AI Developments of 2017

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