Predictions 2019: How AI, Machine Learning Continue to Impact Us

PREDICTIONS 2019: With the new year only weeks away, we present some ideas from various industry executives about what new impacts they believe AI and machine learning will be making on the IT business and our lives in general. We keep pounding away at this point here in eWEEK, and we'll do it again today: We are at an important convergence of technology here in this, the first quadrant of the 21st century. It's all available now: high-connectivity bandwidths, super high-quality code and code libraries, unprecedentedly powerful processors that use less power than previous models, unlimited storage capacities, ingeniously designed mobile and stationary connected devices, a zillion types of cloud services—we could go on. What is next? We're already seeing it: the introduction of much greater functionality through artificial intelligence, which is backed by machine learning. We're seeing more AI in more applications than we've ever seen before: retail, cars, office productivity, military, health care, home entertainment—the list is lengthy.