Here are the five articles you have to read if you are learning about artificial intelligence or simply interested in expanding your knowledge in this field. This article was sponsored by HackerNoon, which means the articles you will see were all published on HackerNoon by amazing individuals, some of them from our community. Still, I carefully selected my personal top five amongst hundreds of other super interesting ones that you might enjoy even more. So please feel free to look at the AI tag on HackerNoon to see similar articles and keep learning! As you may already know, HackerNoon also has a contest called Noonies running right now if you have any creative projects.

As the festive season reaches full-swing, I want to reflect on AI's contributions to 2019. I'll do this by rounding up and linking to the most practical advice that can be applied to businesses, organizations, and governments across the world in the New Year. Recent research from Microsoft has revealed a direct correlation between the use of AI technologies and an organization's ability to enhance and retain its competitive edge. So, without further ado, here's a round-up of seven of the best pieces of journalism that focused on AI's problems, advantages, and opportunities in 2019. Do you want to adopt AI for your business? Have you started preparing, but have no idea how to progress?