Is AI the New Buzz Term Du Jour, Or Is There Meat on the Bone?

Sine 2010, AI has grown at a compounded annual growth rate of almost 60 percent, according to one source. Competition among nation states to "dominate" the AI sphere is reported to be fierce, raising concern that an "intelligence arms race" has already commenced with adversarial governments jockeying for supremacy. Dating back to 1956, AI was first coined by a Stanford University researcher and defined its key mission as a sub-field of computer science. Fast forward to today, AI conjures up images of autonomous robots replacing humans that will quickly take over the world. Simply, AI is the ability of a machine/computer to not only think, but also learn, like human beings.