Although there is a lot of hype around AI/ML, there are a ton of pragmatic things coming out of the research much like this Live Transcription by Google that I

Although there is a lot of hype around AI/ML, there are a ton of pragmatic things coming out of the research much like this Live Transcription by Google that I think will be incredibly helpful to people around the world. The thing I am most excited about is that most of this work is being done in the open, in the very least much of this is being open sourced by Google, Facebook, and other giants. For all the heat they have been taking lately I do think they deserve to be applauded for this and Of course this is mostly happening in order to sell us cloud services but it cannot be understated how helpful this will be to many around the world. Another thing I’m excited about is what I can build with these things, and even more what others will create with these models as building blocks in their applications. As an example, and complete self promotion here, I was able to use some open source models by Google on TensorFlow to build a cross platform App that can read Articles to you using these neural networks. The amazing thing is I built it mostly on nights and weekends, which shows how easy some of this is to work with now, you can check it out here if you like https://articulu.com https://articulu.com