The Extinction Event in Software Ayasdi

While the AI hype cycle is in full cyclone mode at this point, the truth of the matter is that some of it is completely justified. There has been extraordinary growth in field – evidenced in the number of papers, the startups working on key problems and the breakthroughs. Even in the face of an "AI winter" there is enough going on in the field, enough avenues of pursuit, enough low hanging fruit to revolutionize entire industries – even if new and better techniques were not developed. AI technology has effectively outpaced the talent inside most organizations. They can't consume what already exists – which means that the opportunity is as much in making it easier to consume than it is to develop new approaches.