How Big Data and AI Are Set to Transform Online Gaming

If there were two technological advances that were said to have come of age in 2017, they were surely virtual reality and artificial intelligence. While the use of the former is there for all to see – you can hardly miss someone wearing a pair of VR goggles, after all – the application of AI can be much subtler. For example, how many people realize that it's AI that helps to filter out the email messages that seem to spam, despite the spammers' best efforts to always stay a step ahead? Or that it's this technology that helps companies like Uber and Lyft to manage their surge pricing at times of especially high demand? In fact, for the majority people, if you asked them for an example of AI in everyday use today, most would probably cite either Apple's Siri or Amazon's Echo but not be able to go much further than that.