AI and IoT: Like peanut butter and chocolate?

If you had to take a guess, what would you name as the two most prominent trends in technology right now? Like most people, I feel pretty confident in choosing artificial intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things (IoT), not necessarily in that order. But in a rare convergence, in turns out these two trends are even hotter together. In fact, the new hotness is the combination of AI and IoT, manifesting itself in a wide variety of form and implementations in locations around the world. At IBM, for example, the company opened a Watson Internet of Things headquarters in Munich, Germany, earlier this year.