Andrew Ng has called it the “new electricity” while Google CEO Sundar Pichai even went beyond that: “artificial intelligence is going to have a bigger impact on the world than some of the most ubiquitous innovations in history”, like electricity (sorry Andrew…) and even fire.
So, I feel pretty confident to state that AI will lie at the basis of the (re-)development of business, and even society in general. If the world wide web built the substructure of the age of networks and disruption, then AI will drive the same type of revolution in the cognitive age.
Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Alibaba, IBM: everyone is racing to get a piece of that very delectable and rich pie….