Artificial Intelligence Software Is Booming, But Why Now?
TLDR from article which supplement&#x27;s eli_gottlieb&#x27;s comment:<p>&quot;Much of today’s A.I. boom goes back to 2006, when Amazon started selling cheap computing over the internet. Those measures built the public clouds of Amazon, Google, IBM and Microsoft, among others. That same year, Google and Yahoo released statistical methods for dealing with the unruly data of human behavior. In 2007, Apple released the first iPhone, a device that began a boom in unruly-data collection everywhere.&quot;<p>The combination of smartphone + cloud created a virtuous (for AI, that is) cycle of unending data collection, which fed the  improvements in theoretical research models which needed data at a larger scale to be validated.