How artificial intelligence came to be almost everywhere

If you spend any modicum of your time on the internet, or even dabbling in the tech world, you've no doubt seen mentions of "AI," or artificial intelligence, here and there. In the past few years it's become something of a buzzy catchword in the industry. And it seems like every website, app, and game is using it. There's a website that uses AI to rate how "cool" your selfies are. People "feed" AI scripts of popular movies and TV shows to have software spit out a new script based on what it "learned" from the source material.