HAMPTON, N.H. – The utilization of artificial intelligence (AI) in IoT will begin to increase as more user-friendly analysis tools become available. As user-friendly analysis tools become available, utilization of AI will increase. We liken AI-based and other emerging technology tools to the spreadsheet, which enabled business people to, in effect, write simple programs to analyze data. As Microsoft is a long-term advocate of end-user computation, is committed to AI and ML, and has a long track record of enhancing Excel with analytic tools, we expect the company to make ML extensions to Excel available starting in 2018. Until now, few IoT projects have leveraged the potential of AI to unearth value insights in gathered data.