We've just had a big tech season. Between Facebook's F8 conference, Google's I/O Conference and Apple's most recent Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) we've seen the big plans that these tech companies plan on focusing on over this next year. As a huge Apple supporter, I have to say, companies like Google in particular are giving Apple a run for their money. Companies like Google have been focusing on their plans for continued growth and improvement around artificial intelligence and augmented reality. This is setting the bar even higher for Apple whose own intelligent assistant Siri still has a lot of issues when used. Siri does not have the greatest speech recognition and is not connected enough to go in and execute commands.

If you ask many people to name the technology categories that are creating sweeping change right now, cloud computing and Big Data analytics would probably be top of mind for a lot of them. However, there is an absolute renaissance goind on right now in the field of artifical intelligence and the closely related field of machine learning. Some of the biggest tech companies are helping to drive the trend, and Google added to the momentum on this front this week. Specifically, Sundar Pichai, Google's CEO, said on a conference call, "I do think in the long run we will evolve in computing from a mobile-first to an A.I.-first world." In this post, you'll find a collection of the most notable A.I. tools that have recently been open sourced.