What is causing the current boom in AI innovation? My current thinking is that there are six primary drivers of the current AI wave. More importantly these drivers are now in a self-reinforcing cycle which will accelerate the pace of AI innovation and its increasing ubiquity in consumer and business apps. VC funding in pure-play AI startups has increased more than 10-fold since 2010 according to CB Insights. IBM has committed $1bn to Watson, the firm’s AI division. Google has acquired DeepMind and several other AI-oriented startups like. Baidu, Microsoft, Amazon and other tech majors are equally arming up. And startups like Sentient Technologies have amassed war chests. The six forces Moore’s Law The Data Explosion Internet Collaboration Software eating the world API’s and Micro-service architecture (!) The law of AI Lock-in (!)

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