Artificial Intelligence (AI) is creating a great deal of hype, excitement and fear. But what is AI exactly? And how can it be used to solve business problems? This infographic is based on the Practical Artificial Intelligence book, download your free copy here: http://goo.gl/KQMB2H

1. Artificial Intelligence
It’s time to set the record straight about AI.
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Why AI Has Re-Emerged
With all the hype around AI, it can be easy
to be afraid or confused.
Increased Computational
Resources
Identification of Specific
Problems Best Handled
by a Machine
Explosion of Data
AI CapabilitiesSensing
Taking in raw data for
image processing and
speech recognition
Siri listening to you
Assessing
How AI systems look
at the world
Profile building for
recommendation
of search
Reasoning
Thinking about how
things relate to what
is known
IBM’s Watson Acting
Generating and
controlling actions
Cortana speaking
to you
Inferring
How AI systems draw
conclusions
Search engine suggesting
“remedies” when you
search “symptoms”
Predicting
How AI systems make
guesses about what
happens next
Netflix recommends a
show based on history
Quill turns data into narratives by
Generating
Automatically generate
data-driven narratives to
desired specifications.
Informing
Easily share information
in a readable format
at scale.
Analyzing
Identify facts and
determine what is
important and interesting.
Breaking Down AI
Narrow
Designed around
specific tasks
Strong
Aimed at
simulating human
reasoning
Broad
Designed around
ability to reason
in general
Weak
Simply getting
systems to work
Amazon
recommendations
Research onlyGoogle’s deep
learning
IBM’s Deep Blue
Advanced NLG systems like Narrative Science Quill, understand the stories you want
to tell, perform the analysis and ingest the data required to achieve those goals.
How AI Communicates
Natural Language Generation (NLG)