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Artificial intelligence (AI) has so far sustained its status as the key driver of digital innovation because a number of eye-catching projects have come to fruition. Artificial intelligence is changing the basic structure of every industry in areas ranging from decision-making and computing, to robotics, agriculture, retail and even cosmetics. The founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates, recently stated in an interview that'AI can be our friend and AI is just the latest in technologies that allows us to produce a lot more goods and services with less labor." We hear substantial Artificial Intelligence (AI) news every day, from its quantum leap breakthrough performance to dire forewarnings. While the businesses potentially stand to benefit the most from AI, there is a need of protection against any unintended consequences of the technology. Our trends for 2018 on Big Data, Digital Transformation and Internet of Things have been widely received on all social networks. To move beyond the hype and look to the immediate future, we have come up with key trends for AI in the years ahead. While the total market size for AI will almost have a twofold increase on a yearly basis, AI will still outgrow the phase of inflated expectations. In 2018, 70% of the enterprises expect to implement AI over the next 12 months, up from 40% in 2016 and 51% in 2017. As machine learning and neural network technology take on more routine tasks, real progress towards augmenting human productivity and driving value from tedious tasks will be seen in 2018. AI will erase the boundaries between structured and unstructured data-based insights. Counselor-chatbots with the ability to recognize human emotions will be developed in 2018. In a recent Forbes article, contributor Daniel Newman states, "Humans simply can't keep up with the speed at which technology--and customer demands--are moving.