Update from the Standards Vice President: Why Has AI Suddenly Become Interesting?
Bruce Devlin
I have a curious relationship with technology. I have been working with it all my life, and I see topics come and go over the years. This is the third time that I have seen artificial intelligence (AI) becoming trendy, and, this time, I think it will stick. Four things are different this time around, and they are (in alphabetical order) Amazon, Google, IBM, and Microsoft. All of these companies have had AI research programs running for years, but the big change now is that there are enough ubiquitous computing resources in the form of the cloud to make it commercially viable to build products around the platforms.