What's new in Gartner's 2019 hype cycle for AI – and what businesses need to know about

These and many other new insights are from Gartner Hype Cycle For AI, 2019 published earlier this year and summarised in the recent Gartner blog post, Top Trends on the Gartner Hype Cycle for Artificial Intelligence, 2019. Gartner's definition of Hype Cycles includes five phases of a technology's lifecycle and is explained here. Gartner's latest Hype Cycle for AI reflects the growing popularity of AutoML, intelligent applications, AI platform as a service or AI cloud services as enterprises ramp up their adoption of AI. Gartner advises its clients to consider including speech recognition on their short-term AI technology roadmaps. Gartner observes, unlike other technologies within the natural-language processing area, speech to text (and text to speech) is a stand-alone commodity where its modules can be plugged into a variety of natural-language workflows.