Gartner Sees AI Democratized in Latest 'Hype Cycle'

Democratized artificial intelligence is one of five trends driving Gartner's latest Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, which it updates this month, as it traditionally does during the month of August. The analyst group took a slightly different approach with this year's Hype Cycle for Emerging Tech and grouped the 35 individual technologies into major groups, which includes digitalized ecosystems, do-it-yourself biohacking, transparently immersive experiences, and ubiquitous infrastructure, along with democratized AI. The five trends will "blur the lines between human and machine," Gartner says. "CIOs and technology leaders should always be scanning the market along with assessing and piloting emerging technologies to identify new business opportunities with high impact potential and strategic relevance for their business," writes Mike J. Walker, research vice president at Gartner. The AI group contains technologies like AI platform as a service (PaaS), artificial general intelligence, autonomous driving (levels 4 and 5), autonomous mobile robots, conversational AI platform, deep neural nets, flying autonomous vehicles, smart robots, and virtual assistants.