A brief history of AI/ML
If we traveled back in time by only a few years — to the year 2015 — and compared the state of the AI/ML industry to what it is today, we would see that relatively few companies had commercially implemented large-scale AI/ML use cases at that point. Although we would find academic research being performed in this space, we wouldn’t regularly hear AI/ML being discussed in mainstream media, and successful commercial or industrial implementations had mainly been achieved only by some of the world’s largest, industry-leading technology or niche companies. Jumping forward by just 2 years, we find that by the end of 2017, the tech industry is abuzz with discussions of AI/ML, and it seems to be the main topic—or at least one of the main topics—on everybody’s mind.
Based on our time-traveling adventure, one would not be faulted for believing that AI/ML is a brand-new term that suddenly emerged only in the past few...
