How AI is decommoditizing the chip industry

Since the early days of computing, there has always been this idea that artificial intelligence would one day change the world. We've seen this future depicted in countless pop culture references and by futurist thinkers for decades, yet the technology itself remained elusive. Incremental progress was mostly relegated to fringe academic circles and expendable corporate research departments. That all changed five years ago. With the advent of modern deep learning, we've seen a real glimpse of this technology in action: Computers are beginning to see, hear, and talk.