2017, the Year of AI

Recently 2017 came to a glittering end and as we look back through the lens of technology, the winner was probably Artificial Intelligence aka AI. It received tremendous success as much as some of the industry leaders commented that 2017 was the'Year of AI'. This write-up is an attempt to collate the achievements under the academic and industry. Starting off with academics, the sheer volume of papers published is increasing every year. To give you some statistics, in 2017 it was 9 times more than 1996.