What Is an Algorithm?

Inteligencia Artificial

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What is an algorithm?

Algorithms are structures, step-by-step instructions they are an essential and critical element behind Artificial Intelligence.

Computers are excellent at using algorithms with exceptional speeds and the ability to scan vast amounts of data, process calculations and assess probabilities.

This is why on the last year’s companies all around the world have been working hand by hand with the technology, making remarkable progress developing artificial intelligence systems. Leading tech companies already are battling to develop more powerful hardware for machine learning algorithms running in the cloud.

Apple and the technology

Apple “the tech giant” is one of this companies working with Big Data and Artificial Intelligence in way to improve their products with the discovers on technology. Everyone knows Apple, so is easy to give some examples of Artificial Intelligence the company uses as an advantage to improve their products and they are well received.

Eight years earlier, Apple had been the first major tech company to integrate a smart assistant into its operating system. Its origins came from an ambitious DARPA program in intelligent assistants, and later some of the scientists started a company, using the technology to create an app, along with the team that created it, in 2010.

Siri’s transition to a neural net handling speech recognition got into high gear with the arrival of several AI experts.

Nowadays Siri has four components of the product:

* Speech recognition (to understand when you talk to it)

* Natural language understanding (to grasp what you’re saying)

* Execution (to fulfill a query or request)

* Response (to talk back to you)

Apple’s AI infrastructure allows it to develop products and features that would not be possible by earlier means. Macintosh HD 10:Users:paulinamendoza:Downloads:apple-event-sept9-2015-apple-tv-siri-voice-2645.jpg

Advances on the last years

On the last few years Apple has been lagging in the Artificial Intelligence game so far, with its rivals in way to apply the Big Data and AI on their products.

The last release was the iPhone X, which is a product powered by Apple’s A11 bionic processor, which is a six-core SoC optimized for Artificial Intelligence.

The iPhone X's A11 Bionic processor is equipped with