To many, AI is just a horrible Steven Spielberg movie. To others, it's the next generation of learning computers. But what is artificial intelligence, exactly? The answer depends on who you ask.

The book comes from Ashish Sukhadeve, Founder and CEO of Analytics Insight. Years of tracking AI, data, and emerging technologies shape the book's perspective. This background shows in its restraint.

Researchers from The University of Tokyo have found that single cells in collective chemotaxis act like agents in distributed reinforcement learning, utilizing the environment as an “external memory” ...