Key Points: – The market for AI is on an exponential growth curve and is expected to reach $16.06 billion by 2022. Artificial intelligence is rapidly coming of age, poised to transform businesses and industries globally. The market for AI is on an exponential growth curve and is expected to reach $16.06 billion by 2022. With over half of all developer teams projected to embed AI services in their apps by 2018, it's inevitable that consumers will soon be interacting with these new technologies on a regular basis. While the growing popularity of AI is clear, who's actually driving the adoption of these new technologies at organizations?

After spending two to three months training the AI to piece together coherent sentences and phrases, Saatchi LA began rolling out a campaign last week on Facebook called "Thousands of Ways to Say Yes" that pitches the car through short video clips. First, Saatchi LA wrote 50 scripts based on location, behavioral insights and occupation data that explained the car's features to set up a structure for the campaign. After a few more attempts, "We realized that it was struggling with the words that it had learned to create cohesive sentences," Saatchi LA's Pierantozzi said. About halfway through the process, Watson began putting together sentences, but they weren't connected to each other.

The Mirai is Toyota's car of the future. It runs on hydrogen fuel cells, gets 312 miles on a full tank and only emits water vapor. So, to target tech and science enthusiasts, the brand is running thousands of ads with messaging crafted based on their interests. The campaign was written by IBM's supercomputer, Watson. After spending two to three months training the AI to piece together coherent sentences and phrases, Saatchi LA began rolling out a campaign last week on Facebook called "Thousands of Ways to Say Yes" that pitches the car through short video clips.

Watson, IBM's supercomputer, is most well known for beating two quizmasters on popular quiz show Jeopardy! in 2011. The impressive artificially intelligent software was developed to advance machine learning capabilities, including natural language processing, reasoning and knowledge retrieval. Watson can access information from an endless list of sources, from literature to databases. As AI continues to attract investment and R&D, it will impact our lives in so many ways. It's not surprising, then, that Watson has rather expanded its repertoire since its Jeopardy!

He's a lightning-fast learner, he speaks eight languages and he's considered an expert in multiple fields. He's got an exemplary work ethic, is a speed reader and finds insights no one else can. On a personal note, he's a mean chef and even offers good dating advice. Named after IBM's first CEO, Watson was born back in 2007 as part of an effort by IBM Research to develop a question-answering system that could compete on the American quiz show "Jeopardy." Since trouncing its human opponents on the show in 2011, it has expanded considerably.

The key to efficient starship management, as Captains Picard, Kirk, and Janeway have demonstrated, is communication. With Romulans closing in fast and Klingons on the starboard bow, you can't be mumbling orders from the captain's chair -- you need the kind of commanding presence to inspire blind devotion in your crew. And now you'll be able to hone those command skills in virtual reality. Star Trek Bridge Crew -- the VR game that puts you in the slip-on space shoes of a Starfleet officer -- already emphasizes vocal communication when you're playing with real humans, but it will soon allow you to use your voice to issue orders to computer-controlled characters, too. The feature has been made possible using IBM's VR Speech Sandbox.

IBM Watson's artificial intelligence platform will enable voice commands in Ubisoft's Star Trek: Bridge Crew virtual reality game. IBM and French video game developer Ubisoft have partnered to include Watson's interactive speech and cognitive capabilities in a VR game for the first time when Star Trek: Bridge Crew launches on May 30 on the Oculus Rift with Touch, HTC Vive, and PlayStation VR (PSVR). It's another one of those wonderful confluences of technology and games that we highlighted at our GamesBeat Summit event. With IBM Watson, Star Trek: Bridge Crew will provide players the opportunity to use their voice and natural-language commands to interact with their virtual Starfleet crew members. This feature is part of a strategic partnership with Ubisoft.

Ubisoft's Star Trek: Bridge Crew won't just put you in a VR starship when it finally launches. It'll also give you the power to interact with the virtual Starfleet crew with your voice. The company has teamed up with IBM to add Watson's interactive speech capabilities to the game, so you can tell a crew member to launch a missile -- and maybe even pompously add "make it so" in the end -- instead of using manual controls. Bridge Crew was supposed to launch last year but was plagued with numerous delays. It's now scheduled to come out on May 30th for the PC and PS4, with Watson's voice commands to follow later this summer during a Beta period.

Billionaire investor Warren Buffett said Monday that IBM's artificial intelligence unit Watson should one day take the place of humans. "I would think the biggest value will come in when it actually replaces human labor, and machines don't come round annually and ask for higher wages, and they don't need health care, and maybe a little maintenance," Buffett said on CNBC's "Squawk Box." "It should replace people in a big way, unless some other products do the same thing," he said, noting Watson's potential for reading X-rays faster and better than humans. Buffett told CNBC last week he owned about 81 million shares of IBM at the end of 2016 and sold off about a third of that stake in the first and second quarters of 2017. "Watson is a pretty amazing invention," Buffett said. "I'm sure the revenue is growing very significantly but from a very small base."

"Watson is a joke, just to be completely honest," he said in an interview with "Closing Bell" on the sidelines of the Sohn Investment Conference in New York. Watson is named after IBM's first CEO, Thomas J. Watson. He recommended Tesla's convertible bonds at the 22nd annual Sohn Conference, pointing out that it was effectively like buying the equity but with the downside protection of a bond. At last year's Sohn Conference, Palihapitiya recommended Amazon, whose stock is up 40 percent in the past year.