Why This Is The Summer Of Artificial Intelligence

Ok, it might not sound as glamorous as the Summer of Love or Bryan Adams' Summer of '69, but it's just as seminal - if not more so. Over the past couple of years we've seen a trend where technologies previously reserved for the elite or big tech giants have been opened up to mass consumption. We saw this last summer, when the launch of Pokémon Go and the game's meteoric rise - amassing 10 million downloads in its first week - brought Augmented Reality (AR) into the mainstream. A year on, consumers across the world use AR without batting an eyelid every time we add a Snapchat filter. This year, we're seeing Artificial Intelligence go through the same kind of shift.