How AI will boost your sales

Every morning, I see a self-driving car cruising around my neighborhood. The only thing that's remarkable about it is how unremarkable it is. When I see it, I'm reminded that artificial intelligence (AI) isn't some future dream; it's here, now, in our everyday lives. Beyond the buzzwords, AI is a way of augmenting us -- of making us better humans. All of these "little brains" around us are taking the guesswork out of so many processes. Take for example the Nest thermostat, which learns our household patterns in order to figure out how to make us more comfortable (while saving energy); that's one more brain, working away so we can focus on other things.