Artificial intelligence software definition

In the movies, we've seen AI depicted as both good and evil (but mostly not good), in supercomputers (HAL 9000, Colossus and Skynet to name a few) and in robots (the Machines, Sonny and ED-209). Thanks in part to the availability of large amounts of information/big data, today's AI is at work in a variety of applications that are less science fiction and more oriented to solving business problems and charting new territory. In Rolling Stone, tech entrepreneur Jason Calcanis calls AI the new buzzword: "You just use the phrase'Artificial Intelligence' in your business plan and everyone pays attention." In fact, the AI sector attracted 310 million in funding in 2015, up from 45 million in 2010, according to research from CB Insights.