2018 Top 10 Disruptive Trends: AI Enablement

Since 2012, over 250 companies involved in artificial intelligence have been acquired. Over half of these have been in the last two years - with the vast majority engaged in some aspect of machine learning. Efficient independent learning, machine or human, employs a feedback loop to generate solutions and an evaluation of those solutions leading to better solutions the next time around. Control of any part of that feedback loop is a valuable resource to enable AI, that is, to make smarter systems and enable the systems to function better. These are the two sides of the AI Enablement trend.