Today's hardware and software choices will define your AI project's success

Sponsored Everyone seems alive to the potential of Artificial Intelligence in business and the public sector. According to research from PwC, worldwide we can expect to see a boost to economies of $15.7tn by 2030 as more organisations unlock new opportunities in big data and advanced analytics in such fields as financial services, retail, transport and government. The sweet spot of AI is the potential scale of data processing at a volume beyond human capabilities – combined with the capacity for systems to learn and develop unprompted responses. But while PwC's numbers are impressive – and explain why so many are keen to start big-data and AI initiatives – it's important to remember we're still in a very early stage of deployment. "We have to think that AI is still a teenager," says Walter Riviera, EMEA AI Technical Engineer at Intel .