How we're pushing the frontiers with artificial intelligence

The international audience at the recent World Summit AI 2017 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, reportedly topped out at 2,400. Not bad for an inaugural event, writes Jeremy Cowan, editorial director of IoT Now. And it was the goal of a panel of AI heavyhitters to inspire. Amazon's Ralf Herbrich joked that it might be quicker to say where artificial intelligence (AI) is not impacting Amazon's business. He cited current uses of AI in areas as diverse as demand pricing, fresh fruit ripeness prediction, and in Alexa.