MNCs and AI

Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be defined as the field of study of Intelligent Agents, or a system's ability to correctly interpret external data, to learn from such data, and to use those learnings to achieve specific goals and tasks through flexible adaptation, or something that enables machines to learn, think, execute and problem solve like a human being or more colloquially, the term "artificial intelligence" is often used to describe machines (or computers) that mimic cognitive functions that humans associate with the human mind, such as learning and problem solving. A quip in Tesler's Theorem says "AI is whatever hasn't been done yet". Artificial intelligence was founded as an academic discipline in 1955. The field was founded on the assumption that human intelligence "can be so precisely described that a machine can be made to simulate it". Smart machines think alike human beings and have necessary memory built in so that, it can outsmart human beings. So it would seem that AI is a very powerful technology, and like other powerful technologies would like to be used by big corporations to boost productivity, make their products more user friendly or intelligent and in-turn gain customers.