Is Artificial Intelligence getting real?

Artificial intelligence adoption, which has happened in fits and bursts till now, is all set to accelerate this year. That is if recent predictions of leading technology research firms like Gartner, IDC and Forrester for 2019 and beyond prove to be true. Almost every technology research company seems to agree that AI is on the horizon, across industries and geographies. IDC, for one, has predicted huge investments in AI-driven user interfaces and AI algorithms at endpoint devices on cloud-enabled networks. Gartner has forecast exponential increase in AI-enhanced virtual healthcare and sophisticated AI-facial recognition technology and Forrester expects firms to lay the foundation to meet AI's promise this year.