5 AI trends to monitor in 2020

The term "artificial intelligence" in 2019 was catnip to investors. Back in March, London venture capital firm MMC published a report that found startups claiming to work in AI attracted as much as 50 per cent more funding compared to other companies. That same report also found that 40 per cent of European startups that were classified as artificial intelligence companies didn't actually use AI at all. IDC's Canadian ICT Predictions for 2020 report says venture capital funding will become a lot more selective. "Canadian adoption will be driven by what AI is demonstrably better than humans at: content identification and searching, image recognition, and transformation of unstructured to structured data," it says.