In 2016, major auto makers such as Tesla and Ford announced the launch schedule of fully automated driverless cars. As Google's artificial intelligence system, DeepMind's AlphaGo defeated the world Go champion Li Shishi. At the same time, artificial intelligence has made significant strides in the medical field, with some systems even diagnosing cancer more than human doctors.
DeepMind's AlphaGo defeated the world Go champion Li Shishi
Want to know what the cool achievements of Artificial Intelligence made in 2016? Take a look at the list below.
1, AlphaGo beat the world Go champion
In January 2016, Google DeepMind made a major victory in deep learning - AlphaGo, a company it developed, mastered Go, an ancient Chinese board game.
Demis Hassabis, head of DeepMind, said the accomplishment is 10 years ahead of many experts' estimates. At the annual meeting of the American Association of Artificial Intelligence held in February, Hasabis called Go is "the most sophisticated professional game invented by mankind," because of the huge number of potential moves.
Many experts said Go is heavily dependent on human intuition. AlphaGo eventually mastered the game by studying millions of live-action wargames. AlphaGo defeated the world Go champion Li Shishi 4-1 in March this year.
Tesla Autopilot delivers thrombus patients to the hospital
Tesla's Autopilot is a semi-autonomous driving function that adjusts speed, switches lanes, and brakes automatically. Many media reports on this feature focused on a fatal car accident in Florida - when Joshua Brown's Tesla Model S struck a semi-trailer in Autopilot mode.
Nonetheless, Tesla CEO Elon Musk pointed out that cars with Autopilot are safer than cars without this function. Statistics support his view: According to a report released by the US National Security Council in 2015, an average car in the United States will have 1.3 fatalities per 100 million miles while Autopilot users will travel a total of 130 million miles. Currently, only one person is confirmed dead .
In fact, Autopilot did a good job: he sent a thrombosis patient to the hospital. Joshua Neally suddenly felt chest tight when driving home, leaving the highway in Springfield, Missouri. After turning on Autopilot, his car took him to the hospital all the way. Nelly believes it is this autopilot that saved him.
3, Swarm artificial intelligence forecast Kentucky horse racing results
In May of this year, UNU, an artificial intelligence platform, successfully predicted the top four in Kentucky. Swarm is a real-time online tool that brings together people to make group decisions.
The platform was developed by Unanimous AI and until then it was considered almost impossible to predict the outcome of the race. But Swarm accurately predicted the top four, before a Kentucky horse racing expert did that.
4, Microsoft's artificial intelligence language understanding than humans
Speech recognition technology has made great strides in 2016, and virtual assistants such as Echo are very popular. A Microsoft study in October showed that for the first time in conversational speech tasks, "Automatic Recognition is comparable to humans for the first time." The system received 2,000 hours of data training using convolutional and recursive neural networks, eventually Get this victory.
5, artificial intelligence predict the U.S. presidential election
While the results of the U.S. presidential election are beyond the expectations of many, with the exception of insiders, an AI system predicts the result ahead of time: Mumba, an artificial intelligence startup based in Mumbai, predicts Trump will win. The company analyzed the mood on social media with 20 million social media data points. In this way, you can really understand the public opinion that traditional polls can not understand.
While some AI experts have warned that this achievement MoglA should not be hype, it does predict the unpredictable events of most humans.
6, artificial intelligence diagnosis of cancer
"Artificial Intelligence has made significant strides in healthcare," said Roman Yampolskiy, director of cybersecurity lab at the University of Louisville. For example: IBM Watson can determine the problem doctors can not judge.
David Kenny, general manager of IBM Watson, told a story at the Business Insider Ignition conference: The cognitive machine actually diagnosed a previously missed woman with leukemia in Japan. "Statistically, the probability of such a situation is about a third, and Watson suggests to diagnose it again," Kenny said.
In addition, an artificial intelligence program at the Methodist Institute in Houston, Texas, evaluated millions of mammograms - 30 times faster than humans - and up to 99% accurate in cancer diagnosis. "My mother has breast cancer," said Fabio Cardenas, president of Sundown AI. "So I am delighted to see that artificial intelligence can improve the differential diagnosis and patient care process."