Artificial intelligence segment heats up, here's all you need to know about it

The year 2015 proved to be crucial in the history of artificial intelligence (AI). It was the time when AI, which would so far fall in the category of sci-fi, went mainstream. The late John McCarthy, one of the founders of the discipline, foresaw the autonomous car as long back as the 60s. In April 2015, a car designed by Delphi Automotive became the first automated vehicle to complete a coast-to-coast journey across North America. In 2015,computer-aided diagnosis and treatment was first launched and is already being tried at 16 cancer institutes working with IBM's Watson Health artificial intelligence venture.