The Machines are Learning
Imagine for a moment if you could see the billions upon billions of data points flowing throughout our world. As our society has embraced more digital ways of being, we generate vast amounts of data. Each one of us, as we engage with digital tools, lay down trails of data that say something about events, places, and who we are. Within the mysterious realm of Artificial Intelligence (AI) lies the magic of Machine Learning of ML, a science of data and algorithms that act on it. Riders of buses in the Greater Vancouver area were frustrated that Google Maps, and other apps relying on Translink’s online data feed, predicted earlier arrival and departures by over 5-minutes the majority of the time. They were often standing in the rain or dark longer than they would like waiting for a bus that from their perspective was late. By partnering with Microsoft, Translink was able to bring together numerous historical and real time data feeds including traffic and weather data, and develop a mac