Artificial Intelligence: The Next Industrial Revolution

In this guest article, Scot Schultz, Sr. Director AI/HPC and Technical Computing at Mellanox Technologies, explores how artificial intelligence is shaping up to launch the next industrial revolution. It has been said that artificial intelligence will create the next industrial revolution, the fourth industrial revolution that modern-day society has experienced since the dawn of mechanical production and steam power energy documented in 1784. Next on the timeline of society's pivotal transformation was electrical energy and mass production, while the third revolution because around 1969 with electronics and evolving to include the wide spread adoption of internet technologies. Today, many agree that the next wave of disruptive technology blurring the lines between the digital, physical and even the biological, will be the fourth industrial revolution of AI. The fusion of state-of-the-art computational capabilities, extensive automation and extreme connectivity is already impacting nearly every aspect of society, driving global economics and extending into every aspect of our daily life.