Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming more and more a part of our lives … so is it smart to invest in or trade artificial intelligence stocks? The U.S. economy is evolving at an unprecedented pace as next-generation technology disrupts the large corporations that once dominated industries. Companies that fail to innovate disappear, and companies like the FANG group step in to replace them. Unlike the tech stocks from the dot-com bubble crash, these stocks have plenty of room to expand and continue to innovate. One area several companies are heavily investing in is AI.

If you are wondering how to invest in artificial intelligence, this article is for you. A.I. is going to be one of the dominant themes over the next decade, as companies automate their businesses and use A.I. to remain competitive. In this post we discuss the A.I. industry, the different types of artificial intelligence stocks and how-to assess them. Some of the best artificial intelligence stocks you might want to consider are also covered. Artificial intelligence is a broad term used to refer to machines and computer programs that can make intelligent decisions.

When most investors think of artificial intelligence stocks, names like NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) and Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) come to mind -- and well they should. Nvidia's graphics processing hardware has proven an ideal way to complete the intensive number-crunching required by most AI applications, and Microsoft has arguably acquired a number of artificial intelligence companies, garnering some new and impressive technologies it has yet to turn into a practical product. Those products are in the works, though. Many more organizations have waded into artificial intelligence waters, however -- more than you might realize. A bunch of them are smaller and, perhaps, even unknown names. Indeed, many of these unknown names rank among the best artificial intelligence stocks available to investors today.

You can't have a conversation about investing in artificial intelligence (AI) without having companies like Google parent Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) and chipmaker NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) come up. That's for good reason, since those two stocks rank among the top AI stocks on the …