AI and the Cloud -- The Factory Times

Though it's possible our readers haven't heard much about artificial intelligence, you'd have to be living under a rock if you've never heard of'the cloud,' let alone how rare it would be if you had never interacted with one. Both of these concepts can be so far removed from the average user's daily life. Yet some of the more modern telephones carry technology inside them that enables some of the most basic artificial intelligence. Almost all Android and Apple powered phones, by comparison, keep our settings, backups, photos, and all sorts of information synchronized to one or multiple cloud services. When I write about artificial intelligence, I have to acknowledge the major players at the moment are Intel, IBM, and Google. Likewise, when bringing up cloud service providers, Google comes up again, along with Apple, Microsoft, and Amazon Web Services.