Machine Learning with Spark

Abstract

There has been a lot of excitement around artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and deep learning (DL) in recent years. AI experts and researchers have predicted AI will radically transform the way humans live, work, and do business in the future. For businesses around the world, AI is considered to be one of the next steps in their journey of digital transformation, and some are more far along than others in incorporating AI into their business strategies. Businesses expect AI to help solve their business problems efficiently and quickly as well as to create business value and improve their competitive advantages. Internet giants such as Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, and Facebook are leading the pack in investing in, adopting, and incorporating AI into their product portfolios. In 2017, more than $15 billion of venture capital (VC) money went into investing in AI-related startup companies around the world, and this trend is expected to continue in 2018.