What’s the Difference Between Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning?

This year, various industries across many organizations are implementing artificial intelligence. Often, leaders who are not familiar with Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning will use the terms interchangeably. When working with technologists and AI experts, this can confuse them. In this post, I’m going to explain each of these terms.

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Can Artificial Intelligence Bring Human Care Back to Medicine?

Mar 05

Here’s an all too familiar doctor visit scenario: You arrive early to fill out a short-novel-length amount of paperwork. You’re ushered into an exam room, where a PA or Medical Assistant asks the reason for today’s visit and have there been any changes to your health or medications? Next, your doctor (or PA) walks into the exam room, sits at a computer — often with their back to you — and asks more questions while typing in your responses and their related notes. In just a few minutes, you’re sent off with a new medication to try or a procedure to have done.

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Can Artificial Intelligence Bring a New Gold Rush?

Feb 18

The “low hanging fruit” of gold deposits are long gone. The California gold rush peaked in 1849, and all easy-access gold in the United States has since been mined. Today there are still companies that mine for ore and precious minerals, but the work is more complex and dangerous. To minimize obstacles, mining companies are seeking help from Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology.

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Fighting Fire with Artificial Intelligence

Feb 02

Last year’s Camp Fire, the name given to California’s most destructive wildfire, burned over 150,000 acres and was responsible for 86 deaths. This year, as the dry season approaches, the National Guard is helping California with wildfire prevention. The National Guard will remove dead trees and vegetation and will create fuel breaks in the highest fire-risk zones.

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Artificial Intelligence: An ally for society?

Jan 14

According to the dictionary, intelligence “Is the faculty of the mind that allows us to learn, understand, reason, make decisions and form a certain idea of reality.” Still, the difference between “human intelligence” and “artificial intelligence” is that the latter is assigned to a series of technologies with characteristics or capabilities previously exclusive to the human intellect. Artificial Intelligence refers to a machine that imitates the cognitive functions that humans associate with other human minds, such as learning, solving problems, creativity, etc.

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