Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, bots --a passing trend or much more?

Artificial intelligence is taking over the world whether we want it or not, so we can either make it work for us or against us. But how? That's one of the things we talked about with some fellow startuppers last week. It's good to experience the startup community firsthand from time to time. It helps you keep your finger on the pulse much more effectively than just gathering data online or talking to people on Facebook and Twitter. That's exactly why we decided to go to the SaaS Meetup, to see what the perceived trends in the startup world are, and to talk to some founders to find out whether these trends actually mean something.