All Eyes On AI in 2017

This might be the easiest 2017 prediction to make: Artificial intelligence will continue to generate big headlines and command a considerable share of the corporate pocketbook as companies look to bolster their products and services with more automated decision making and human-like qualities. As we start the New Year, one of the big trends that nearly everybody in the big data analytics industry agrees on is that AI will continue to grow in scope and importance. In many ways, AI is picking up where big data is leaving off. Whereas people once associated machine learning with big data, they're now lumping that technology and its offshoot–deep learning–into the AI category. Whatever definition you use for AI, it's clear that the current phenomenon has legs.