After a troublesome adolescence during which artificial intelligence (AI) mostly appeared in movie plots and presentations delivered by so-called “futurists,” AI has finally come of age. It’s now starting to change the way both consumer- and enterprise-focused products perform.

Beyond the Robots

The real (non-Hollywood) AI has emerged because of faster processing speeds, improved (and cheaper) storage, and our current approach to managing Big Data. The sum of these forces has allowed us to start applying AI to help all software systems drive the decision-making process. The hope is that we’ll build up to a new level of context-aware use cases.

The emergence of real-world AI comes from the combination of all these factors, plus a new approach to microprocessor chipset engineering where a degree of AI is hard-etched onto the circuit boards powering our machines. You can see why AI has become core to how we’re now able to make digital transformation happen.