Why Is Everyone Talking About Artificial Intelligence?

Everyone is talking about artificial intelligence these days actually if you look at searches and mention of artificial intelligence online you can see a clear exponential trend AI is not new it actually started over 65 years ago but today we finally have a cost efficient way to store transfer and compute a massive amount of data in a way that was never possible before. In 2017 I have been wondering the growth of AI industry and I have to say to you that I'm quite amazed by the attention AI is receiving recently. At some point I realized that all the tech newsletters I'm subscribed whenever I receive an email, almost every time there are news about AI. Developers are talking about AI. Engineers are talking about AI.