Back in 1926 Tesla envisioned something that sounded suspiciously similar to what we today call the Internet of Things (IoT). To him, the ability of devices to transmit wirelessly would naturally lead to an interconnected world of instruments, a technological brain present in our mere pockets.
Have you ever tried to watch a foreign movie in a language that you’ve recently learned without subtitles? Or conversed on the phone with someone that is eating at the same time? Speech recognition is a task where even humans face difficulties if the conditions are not ideal.
When Alan Turing coined the Turing test in his paper “Computing machinery and intelligence”, which laid the foundations of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning, he was confronted with the following question: “Do machines think?”
