Traditional artificial intelligence (AI) has come on in leaps and bounds from its earliest beginnings, but it did hit a roadblock. As fast as mainframe computers could run computations, they were only as smart as the programmers who accessed the data and coded how to look at it. The computer program – the AI – lacked the ability to know or truly understand the data it was seeing.

A new approach was needed to radically change how coding AI was approached. Only this way could computers…