[News] Amazon claims AI is having an ?amazing renaissance?

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http://www.fudzilla.com/news/43605-a...ng-renaissance

Amazon boss Jeff Bezos claims that Artificial intelligence development has seen an "amazing renaissance" and is beginning to solve problems that were once seen as science fiction.

"It is a renaissance, it is a golden age," Bezos told an audience at the Internet Association's annual gala last week.

Unfortunately, it has not helped solve that American problem of using the wrong word. For AI to be undergoing a renaissance it would have had to have been around before. The term was first coined in the 16th century and it means ?revival?. Bezos should have asked his AI Alexa for the right word before saying it.

Bezos said that Amazon was now solving problems with machine learning and artificial intelligence that were in the realm of science fiction for the last several decades. ?And natural language understanding, machine vision problems, it really is an amazing renaissance."

Bezos called AI an "enabling layer" that will "improve every business".

At Amazon, Bezos said that "cool" developments like Alexa and its Prime Air delivery drones use "tremendous amounts" of AI. But machine learning is being deployed across the company.

"I would say, a lot of the value that we're getting from machine learning is actually happening kind of beneath the surface. It is things like improved search results, improved product recommendations for customers, improved forecasting for inventory management, and literally hundreds of other things beneath the surface," Bezos said.

The Amazon CEO also said that the company is making AI techniques available to enterprise customers through its cloud division, Amazon Web Services.

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I'm not sure what Fudo's issue with the use of "renaissance" is here. Maybe they don't remember how AI was a major topic in the late 80s and early 90s back when the algorithms and computational power were insufficient to achieve much. Things went dormant for a couple of decades. That word would seem to describe situations like this.