Finland will be a winner in the Artificial Intelligence disruption

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is now being hyped in earnest. The media is full of stories about its achievements: magical algorithms beating humans on their own turf in Jeopardy, the Chinese go-game and Texas hold' m, not to mention the stock traders and radiologists soon to be displaced by machines. IBM was very clever to name its AI software suite Watson. A bit of mystique is always intriguing. And that is not all: venture capital is pouring into AI start-ups – 15 billion US dollars since 2012!