Machine Learning and AI is taking over our lives

Google has added futurist and artificial intelligence guru Ray Kurzweil as Director of Technology. The hire highlights the growing importance of machine learning to the internet, search and discovery and everything from self driving cars to analyzing documents. Machine learning is transitioning in a big way from the R&D labs into mainstream consumer and enterprise applications. 2013 will be even bigger with several Big Data processes incorporating machine learning. Ray truly believes in artificial intelligence growing beyond the capabilities of humans. With the availability of massive amounts of computing power through cloud computing and SSD storage, its time for the machines to really step into the mainstream and take over duties performed by humans. It may sound futuristic but so was the idea of the internet taking over our communication.