We had AI for long time, same as we had Internet long before 80's but general public started seeing the effects much later on. In my opinion AI now already came to that point last year and I'm expecting it to explode and find implementations in a lot of practical usages that not many people even thinks about at the moment. And I mean general AI technology, down to basic math and analytics, methodology, hardware, etc. IT technology on top of that is not that important. It will adapt. Currently it's mostly Python and GPU processors. AI Services from big players are emerging already too.

But implementations, that's interesting to us. Self driving cars and voice recognition is known to everybody. But small things too... I've been on presentation of AI depertment of local newspaper/ads and they use AI in example to calculate "show similar articles" next to each article, which replaced old text-indexed solution. It increased pageviews over 30% on the site! That widget became one of the largest traffic generators to the site. I've seen their uploaded picture for ads automatically finding proper category for the ad. Their algorithm not only differentiated stuffed dog toy from the real dog, but even free "homeless" dog from the expensive breed dog! it recognized female jeans from male jeans. Jesus, I can't do that from the photo! I've seen it recognizing people in crowd photos, with above 90% success, after neural network was fed with only couple hundred photos of each person. And it also recognized those persons when they were 30-40 years younger.

That's just to scratch the idea of implementations. What about AI trading shares for you (check this amazing tool: https://github.com/maxbbraun/trump2cash)? What about AI price manager for Hotels based on current sales or market analisys? And so on, and so on.

AI implementations = money

Tagging Marco Alka so that he can see Mirko Vukušić's reply.

I am aware of the fact that the industry already has AI today. My point is that it will be more and more used and it will become easier to interact with for non technical people. It will be possible for someone to formulate a problem in natural language, and the AI figure out what information it needs to understand what the person wants, it will ask relevant questions to clarify the problem, and then provide the answers in natural language. We have that already today. The problem is that at this point is for very few people, and is not as strong as it could be. And the real progress will start when the AI will start asking its own questions and providing its own answers. Because we are not smart enough to know what to ask. But in a decade, I expect the AI to be that smart. And the real progress will start the day AI starts asking itself questions.