Just one of the slides from a presentation that I’m working up for an upcoming online presentation at Northwestern University, but it tells the story.

Just one more thought: here’s the rapid pace of evolution within just the image analysis realm of AI, largely due to multiple layers (sometimes, many, many, MANY multiple layers) of networks, a good fraction of which are Convolutional Neural Networks, or CNNs.

Error rates have dropped from over 15% to about 3% within just four years, from 2012 to 2016. Human error rates are in the 5-10% range.