IoT Seen Driving AI Adoption

While hardware vendors view it as another vehicle for selling more chips and servers that would allow enterprises to move processing power closer to data, the torrent of sensor and other information the Internet of Things (IoT) is expected to generate also is driving adoption of artificial intelligence technology, concludes a new survey of software developers. Evans Data Corp., the market intelligence specialist based on Santa Cruz, Calif., released a survey of developers this week that placed IoT at the top of a list of technologies propelling AI adoption. The findings are somewhat surprising given the amount of development related to big data technologies. The developer survey nevertheless found that IoT topped the list of AI drivers that included machine learning, neural networks, deep learning and pattern recognition technologies. "All the related disciplines that are commonly lumped together as artificial intelligence are being stimulated by the burgeoning growth of Internet of Things."