AI: Beyond the Hype and Into Reality - Dataconomy

Buzzwords are part of what makes the internet go'round, and you'd be hard-pressed to find a more popular and controversial term today than Artificial Intelligence (AI). Once just an ethereal concept that interested the nerdiest among us, AI has become a very real obsession in all corners of the tech world. Read the headlines and you'll hear about the variety of super-smart devices coming our way. The problem with these headlines, though, is that they assume a zero-sum game: "humans vs. AI-powered systems." The truth is far different: we need AI, and AI needs us.