Machine learning and artificial intelligence have been the leading topics of discussion in 2020. The coronavirus pandemic has made these technologies highly crucial than before, as they have shown the potential to help in many ways. Machine learning is now the driving force behind multi-billion industries such as medical diagnostics companies and autonomous vehicle companies, among others. With this immense potential, almost every industry is investing in it. Here are some trends that you should expect in 2021 going forward.

Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence (ML and AI) have become some of the most talked about technologies in the recent years. This has been occasioned by the prominence that these technologies have gained and the advancements in this area. As such, big tech companies such as Google, Microsoft Azure and Amazon are the leaders in this area, having developed different ML platforms. While AI and ML may appear to be alien terminologies to many, we have been experiencing it without us even being aware of it. Some of the areas that you might have come into close contact with this technology are in image tagging by Facebook as well as spam detection by email providers. For Facebook, for example, uploaded images are tagged automatically using face or image recognition algorithms while email providers such as Gmail use ML to recognize patterns or selected words then filter spam messages accordingly. Now let us look at some problems that arise from machine learning.

 Bias is one of the biggest documented weaknesses of humans. This can be seen from implicit tests that show that we are not even aware of some of our biases. Although we may say that these biases are part of human nature, experiments have shown that they can affect our judgments and outcomes. Over the past few years, there has been an argument on whether human biases can be solved by artificial intelligence or whether these biases can make their way into AI systems and cause harm. This comes at a time when AI is being deployed by many companies across different industries. The industries need to be aware of the risks of biases ad how AI can be affected by it.

Minecraft is a popular sandbox multiplayer online building game. It starts with a generated world where terrain and features are created with building blocks. There are also generated characters called “mobs” that appear throughout the world. The two types of gameplay in Minecraft are survival mode and creative mode. In survival mode the player can be harmed and has limited resources. In creative mode the player does not have to worry about being harmed and has access to all resources. In creative mode the player’s imagination is the limit and there have been endless creative projects that have been carried out in the game including recreations of cities and landmarks among others.