Systems of the future will be driven by the Artificial Intelligence (AI) of today

A future driven by AI technology has just been outlined by the CEO of Google, Sundar Pichai, during his keynote address at Google IO 2017. Pichai stated "the more we democratise access to AI, the sooner everyone will benefit". This vision was backed up by announcing a number of AI driven technologies including improvements to Google Home, Google Assistant and the all new Google Lens -- an object recognition system that uses a smartphone camera and machine learning to interpret the world around you. This is another major step toward a machine driven future -- a movement that has garnered a lot of attention in recent years. AI isn't a new technology and has been applied to plenty of digital systems for decades.