San Jose becoming hub for artificial intelligence firms

Cheaper and older isn't typically associated with riches and success in the Bay Area tech scene. But that's just what San Jose is offering -- cheaper office rent and older tech workers -- to a rapidly expanding cohort of companies focused on artificial intelligence, the explosive new frontier in tech. "San Francisco has the gamers, we have the grownups," said San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo. "We've got a very rich pool of talented, skilled workers." Artificial intelligence -- which can be broadly interpreted to include machine learning and the "deep learning" technology that resembles human thought -- is widely seen to be as revolutionary as the internet and mobile phones.