Is the market finally ready for mass AI adoption?

I just came back from the Venture Beat Transform 2019 conference here in San Francisco, and I have to say, for the first time in many years, I'm starting to feel like the industry is finally starting to get it. What am I talking about specifically? Well, I'm traditionally always right about stuff, and this time, I've been incredibly right about the challenges the market may have had in adopting machine learning. It really felt like everyone at this conference had read these posts and was reporting everything they learned to the audience. That, of course, is exactly what didn't happen.