Thursday, January 19, 2017

Artificial Intelligence is Becoming Quite Practical

For most of us, artificial intelligence (AI) has been a science project for the past few decades: interesting and provocative, but not something that actually affects the businesses most of us deal with on a daily orFor most of us, artificial intelligence (AI) has been a science project for the past few decades: interesting and provocative, but not something that actually affects the businesses most of us deal with on a daily or even annual basis.

There are reasons to believe that is changing. Charles Fan, Cheetah Mobile CTO, said it might seem odd for a mobile app and tools company such as Cheetah Mobile to be seriously evaluating AI. Actually, it turns out to be most practical, as Cheetah Mobile launches new applications in the news aggregation area.

Eventually, the ability to personalize and then predict what a particular person might like will require AI to mine and then predict and deliver “suggested items” to individual people.
Your social profile helps, but only so much. Content providers or advertisers can assume you are somewhat like your “friends” in terms of interests. But only up to a point is that correct. Each individual actually is quite different, at a more-granular level. But it will take AI to rapidly process all the data used to assemble a highly-personalized set of content and then match people with highly-targeted offers and ads. even annual basis.

There are reasons to believe that is changing. Charles Fan, Cheetah Mobile CTO, said it might seem odd for a mobile app and tools company such as Cheetah Mobile to be seriously evaluating AI. Actually, it turns out to be most practical, as Cheetah Mobile launches new applications in the news aggregation area.

Eventually, the ability to personalize and then predict what a particular person might like will require AI to mine and then predict and deliver “suggested items” to individual people.

Your social profile helps, but only so much. Content providers or advertisers can assume you are somewhat like your “friends” in terms of interests. But only up to a point is that correct. Each individual actually is quite different, at a more-granular level. But it will take AI to rapidly process all the data used to assemble a highly-personalized set of content and then match people with highly-targeted offers and ads.

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