The AI spring will herald a surge in machine-learning-related M&A

Let's define what we mean by AI, machine learning and deep learning, which are the most often used phrases to describe what is going on, and are often used interchangeably – not always correctly. AI is the quest to build software running on machines that can'think' and act like humans – what can be thought of as general AI. Machine learning is a subset of artificial intelligence focused on using algorithms that learn and improve without being explicitly programmed to do so. The algorithms take data as an input, and the output is predicted data or actions. The algorithms improve as they are exposed to more data.