AI's Big Trade Secret -- summer .ai

Artificial Intelligence is on the rise, but (for a change) I'm not talking about the great AI panic of 2015. I'm talking about everyday AI that's build into vacuum cleaner robots, Siri, web analytics, and your email. Everybody is fascinated by the technology, and it seems like AI is making huge breakthroughs. I'm sitting at the source of cutting edge AI development (pun intended), and as in any other discipline, 95% of the work has very little to do with coming up with amazing new algorithms to outsmart humans. But more importantly, 95% of how well these AI systems perform also has nothing to do with smarter algorithms.