Canada and the Artificial Intelligence Revolution

Artificial intelligence is being called the "new electricity" as it revolutionizes business, employment, and society. Through fields such as machine learning, deep learning, and neural networks, AI is transforming everything from health care, agriculture, and construction to financial and professional services. Research and advisory company Gartner predicted that almost every new software product would implement AI by 2020. "AI is bigger than the internet in many ways," said Karthik Ramakrishnan, Montreal-based Element AI's vice-president of industry solutions, in an interview. "This is now the age of intelligence."