Do the numbers, Einstein: AI is more than maths as some know it

Microsoft arrived on the graph-database scene last month. Already on that scene are Neo4J, MarkLogic, Oracle, SAP and Teradata - among others. Driving Microsoft, like those before, is the desire to connect - to establish connections between things and derive some kind of gain. Those "things" could be people, "likes", online sales – tech firms are almost literally trying connecting the dots or as they like them to be called "nodes." The new thing is Artificial Intelligence and the Machine Learning that gets us there.