Artificial Intelligence Will Be Hollywood's Next Big Star – Guest Column

Editors' Note: Industry veteran Arvin Patel is Chief Intellectual Property Officer at TiVo and former chief IPO officer at Technicolor, with previous stints at Rovi and IBM. At TiVo, he oversees the company's annual $400 million IP business and about 6,000 issued patents, as well as its pending applications worldwide. He also leads TiVo's global organization of IP professionals overseeing portfolio development and management, licensing, strategic patent acquisition, policy, and the company's long-term innovation strategy. This year marks the 50th anniversary of 2001: A Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubrick's seminal science fiction film that examined our evolution as human beings and technology's role in our development. Looking back, you can argue that Kubrick was surprisingly prescient in depicting man's relationship with machines as companies like Amazon, Google and Apple continue to invest in AI-related products and services.