Author: Janakiram MSV / Source: Forbes
Microsoft has announced that it is acquiring Bonsai – an AI startup focused on reinforcement learning – to expand its AI offerings. This move helps Microsoft in expanding its portfolio to autonomous systems and industrial control systems.
Bonsai, an artificial intelligence startup based in Berkeley, California, aims to democratize AI by making the technology accessible to business decision makers.
It is abstracting the complexity involved in implementing reinforcement learning.Mark Hammond, the co-founder, and CEO of Bonsai is not new to Microsoft. He had a short stint at Microsoft working as a developer evangelist and a consultant for Microsoft Research. For the last five years, Mark and his team focused their efforts on simplifying AI for businesses.
Bonsai redefines the workflow of implementing AI models through Basic Recurrent Artificial Intelligence Network (BRAIN), architect, learner, and predictor. The architect defines the high-level mental model of the system which will eventually translate to the right algorithm. The instructor ensures that the system learns from existing data sources or simulated datasets. It creates an execution plan to make sure that the outcome defined by the architect can be achieved with higher accuracy. The learner component is responsible for carrying out the actual execution of the low level, underlying artificial intelligence algorithms. It takes the inputs from the instructor to define the parameters of the learning algorithm and evaluating the performance. Finally, the predictor…
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