Update from the Standards Vice President: AI and ML

I have a problem with the phrase artificial intelligence (AI). It’s a kind of catch-all term used to not only explain how Facebook’s algorithms work (which no one seems to understand, not even Facebook) all the way to a dystopian future involving robots that claim to be alive. The reality is that artificial general intelligence is probably a long way off, but targeted applications of machine learning (ML) will change the way that we live in years to come.