By MANDY DE WAAL, Daily Maverick
The world is entering an age of superabundant data. We’re spewing out masses of information: from credit card charges to consumer shopping patterns and life-saving blood work results, to more mundane data like Facebook updates and blogs. The amount of information generated globally is increasing exponentially and, as it does, mankind will become ever more reliant on machines to make sense of it all. More so, smart machines created by even smarter scientists will help humans solve problems that could save lives. One of the world’s top thinkers on artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning is Daphne Koller, who’s helping machines “think” with her probability models for complex and uncertain domains. These models enable computer systems to solve real-world problems like changing the way search engines read images or predicting whether premature babies will have life-threatening complications. Koller is part of a team at Stanford University that recently pioneered a revolutionary new way of modelling risks for premature infants.
http://www.thedailymaverick.co.za/article/2010-11-16-building-smarter-machines-that-serve-humanity
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