Originally posted to LinkedIn Pulse by Chris Bradford, Executive Vice President of Sales & Marketing at FiberLight, LLC. According to a report from Markets and Markets, the global Artificial Intelligence (AI) space is expected to surge to $16 billion over the next five years, growing at a CAGR of nearly 63 percent from 2016 to 2022. AI is the development of smart systems that can perform tasks which normally require human intelligence. Machine and deep learning are subsets of AI that mimic activities in neural networks of the brain where thinking occurs. Deep learning software can be programmed to recognize patterns in the digital representations of sounds, images and other data.