Ask the AI experts: What's driving today's progress in AI?

While the deep-learning technology behind many of today's AI advances seems new to most, it has been around for decades--simply needing the data and power available today to fuel it. Artificial-intelligence technology has begun to hit its stride, springing from research labs into real business and consumer applications. Earlier this year at the AI Frontiers conference in Santa Clara, California, we sat down with AI experts from some of the world's leading technology-first organizations to find out. An edited version of the experts' remarks follows the video. Li Deng, chief AI officer, Citadel: There are a few factors that really propelled AI to this current state--what many people call "the third wave." The first wave died because people were probably too naive.