A primer on A.I. and what you need to know

Published March 15, 2019 This content is archived.

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An article in Buffalo Business First explains what artificial intelligence is and is not, and how businesses are using it. It quotes David Doermann, director of the UB Artificial Intelligence Institute, and Venu Govindaraju, UB vice president for research and economic development. Doermann said AI is “affecting absolutely every aspect” of society, from health care to finance.

“You’re not going to be able to go into McDonald’s without there being some system that knows how many people come in around that particular time,” he said. “You can even imagine having long-term weather data that would predict how many people will be there based on the weather that day. All of these sorts of things will touch every aspect of society.”

Read the article here.