Five times Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning were in the news in 2017

From Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning to major job losses in the IT sector, news headlines were abuzz with developments from the tech world through the year. The year saw opening up of unknown avenues, and disruption in various walks of life by the way of technology. A crisis unfolded in the IT sector when large Indian and global companies handed out pink slips to their employees in large numbers as the sector moved towards automation for back-end operations that at one point needed an army of coders. What followed was talks surrounding employees looking to unionize, to which the top brass of IT stated that reskilling, and not unionizing would be the best option for all the stakeholders in the sector. Employees who were able to deal with machine learning and AI operations and maintenance would now get the top jobs in IT.