Why We Need More Women Taking Part In The AI Revolution

In 2011, entrepreneur and investor Marc Andreessen wrote his famous,"Why Software Is Eating the World" in the Wall Street Journal. Today, that story would more likely read, "Why Artificial Intelligence Is Eating the World." The market for artificial intelligence (AI) technologies-- from voice and image recognition to chat bots to self-driving cars-- is hot. A Narrative Science survey found last year that 38% of enterprises are already using AI, and that number will grow to 62% by 2018. Like the tech industry at large, the field of artificial Intelligence is dominated by white men.