The Economic Value of Artificial Intelligence

Perhaps the single biggest reason Artificial Intelligence won't reach the ominous scale of the Terminator or the romantic, dulcet tones of Samantha in Her or the childlike wonder of Spielbergs AI is economics. Artificial Intelligence is a Business Proposition While it may seem impressive that IBM, Google, Apple, Amazon and Facebook are dropping hundreds of millions into developing Artificial Intelligence systems, don't ever forget that there is a business purpose behind these investments. If that profit becomes elusive, AI research at this current scale will fizzle rather fast. IBM with Watson; the two have almost become synonymous and I'd wager IBM may even change its name to Watson. When IBM changes it's name to Watson, we can be fairly sure they see the economics to do so.