Artificial Intelligence: From Science Fiction to Alexa - Appian Blog

For science fiction fans like me, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has always fired up the imagination. As a field of study, AI has been a part of academia since the mid-1950s. Since then, AI has been hyped as the key to our civilization's future, and panned as nothing more than entertainment for nerds. Over the past few years though, AI has started to gain real traction. A lot of this has to do with the availability of powerful, cheaper and faster computing capability, the emergence of the Internet of Things, and the explosion of data generated as images, text, messages, documents, transactions, mapping and other data.