Artificial intelligence (AI) is the ultimate manifestation of the promise of technology to improve our lives. Within our lifetimes AI will become omnipresent across every segment of economic activity and within every field of human endeavour. But AI is not a single genus but a constellation of technologies that must work together in harmony. By 2030 over 50 billion devices will be connected to the Internet of Things and will include new sensor technologies which will capture and create new modalities of data. Mastering this constellation of artificial intelligence technologies is a rainbow of minds from data scientists to robot builders and AI investors.

An analysis of GlobalData Artificial Intelligence (AI) Influencer Platform, which tracks over 200 leading global AI experts and their discussions pertaining to the emerging trends, pain areas, new fields of innovation and other popular areas on Twitter, revealed Ronald van Loon, Director at Adversitement, as the top influencer in the fourth quarter (Q4) 2019. Ganapathi Pulipaka, chief data scientist at Accenture, was ranked second among AI experts with an influencer score of 84. Kirk Borne, Principal data scientist at Booz Allen Hamilton, was ranked third with an influencer score of 81. Among the companies, Microsoft emerged as the leading company among the discussions of artificial intelligence experts, followed by Google and Amazon. The conversations on Microsoft were led by Microsoft HoloLens, an immersive mixed reality experience, developed by the reliability, security and scalability of cloud and AI services from Microsoft.

Sharing AI related news has become crucial in this era of digital transformation. Given the current wave, many AI researchers have turned into AI influencers to drive value and success to their respective field. These are the people who are driving conversations about AI across social media and other platforms. Please note: This is not a ranking article. Gregory Piatetsky is a well-known expert in Big Data, Business Analytics, Data Mining, Data Science, and Machine Learning and is among top influencers in those fields.

Artificial Intelligence influencer Kartik Gada is featured in today's episode of Tech Talk With Anu. During his interview with Anu Deshpande, Kartik talks about specific ways in which Artificial Intelligence will impact our lives in the next 20 years, and his belief that continued technology deflation will lead to the need for Universal Basic Income and a route to fund it, rather than increased government debt.

Due to recent major technological developments, Artificial Intelligence is evolving at an exponential rate. It is even considered to be the technology of the future. But the truth is, it is already present in our everyday lives: fraud detection, purchase predictions on e-commerce sites, videos games and virtual personal assistants like our favorite one, Julie. In case you still don't fully understand what it entails or want to know more about AI, here is a list of 10 Artificial Intelligence experts and influencers who specialized in Artificial Intelligence and related fields and who share their knowledge on the subject area or just keep you up to date with the latest developments. CEO of Thilium, an Influencer Marketing Agency and International branding expert, Tamara McCleary also specializes in Business experiences in IoT, Machine Learning, Blockchain, Wearables, FinTech and Artificial Intelligence, to name a few.