How AI And Machine Learning Quietly Went Mainstream

The bold, hype-laden pronouncements around AI and machine learning were hard to miss five or six years ago. Headlines about robo-accountants stealing jobs, algorithms that will cure disease and autonomous vehicles were everywhere. Then, reality quickly caught up with the hype, those promises eventually proved overly ambitious and many people lost the plot. Seemingly all at once, just as most of the mainstream media was starting to write off AI, the pendulum swung in the other direction. The last two years have seen a surge in AI adoption.