
AI Blueprints
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The CEO of Google, Sundar Pichai, said in January 2018, AI is one of the most important things humanity is working on. It is more profound than electricity or fire (https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/01/google-ceo-sundar-pichai-ai-is-more-important-than-fire-electricity.html) Though Pichai was referring to useful pursuits such as cancer research and language translation, dramatic testaments such as these set an impossible standard for AI researchers and products and services enriched with AI technologies. AI is, indeed, making significant advancements in many application areas, and this book has shown just a small sampling of what can be done with AI with relatively little effort. But AI as a field and popular concern has witnessed these springs before – they always follow some kind of AI winter. An AI winter is a period of time when funding (often government funding) and venture capital available for AI research dwindles and the average person's optimism about...