The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Cloud, Big Data, IoT and Artificial Intelligence

Steven Hawking and Elon Musk are pretty smart guys. So when they say the Terminator movie franchise might be a preview of coming attractions, people take notice. But while these mega-brains spar against futurists such as Raymond Kurzweil, who welcome the coming of the age of the machines, it's important to understand the technology elements that are coming together to make Artificial Intelligence not only a reality, but ubiquitous in our daily lives. Cloud Computing is transforming the notion that individuals and companies have to own the physical equipment and space their data is housed in. A recent article in the Financial Times titled, Artificial Intelligence In the Cloud, The Next Great Disruptor, featured the idea that A.I. and Cloud are a match made in heaven.