Artificial intelligence has a big year ahead

Most AI computing happens in data centers packed with hundreds or thousands of servers. Get ready for AI to show up where you'd least expect it. In 2016, tech companies like Google, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft launched dozens of products and services powered by artificial intelligence. Next year will be all about the rest of the business world embracing AI. Artificial intelligence is a 60-year-old term, and its promise has long seemed like it was forever over the horizon.