How Machines Think (& Why Government Executives Should Care)

What makes Artificial Intelligence (AI) a unique technology is its ability to “learn” from experience. Instead of programming applications with predefined rules to perform specific functions, data is used to teach the application to complete a desired task. This underlying approach – machine learning – relies on large scale processing of structured or unstructured data to build intelligence, enabling the computer to make sense of data, recognize patterns and ultimately to support desired actions or conclusions.