IBM Artificial Intelligence Chief Shares His Predictions For 2019

Artificial intelligence has been applied to everything from digital assistants that power smart speakers to helping drivers park to predicting weather. And during the next year, the technology is expected to become even cheaper, more efficient, and more broadly used. "We are going to see increasing democratization of the ability to create AI and, more importantly, deploy AI," said Dario Gil, chief operating officer of IBM's AI and quantum computing. As a result, he added, in the next year people should expect "not just accurate AI, but trusted AI." The greater use of AI over the next year depends on improving how computers learn based on experience and reasoning, both of which help lower the cost and increase the speed at which the complex systems behind AI crunch massive amounts of data. As AI gains adoption, new uses could open up for that haven't yet been considered.