In today's "Perspectives on Agility" segment, sponsored by AT&T, hosts Brad Smith and Tim Stenovec explore the state of IoT in 2018.
According to the research firm Gartner, IoT device sales increased 31% from 2016 to 2017. At the end of last year there are over 8 billion connected "things" in existence and if you can believe it, that number is expected to climb to over 20 billion by 2020.
If you wanted to previously find an image that perfectly matched what you saw in your head online, you had to type in a wordy search inquiry and would get countless results back. Now, that mental snapshot can be crafted in seconds by artificial intelligence and sometimes it’s even better than you could imagine.
Google on Wednesday disclosed plans to infuse its dominant search engine with more advanced artificial-intelligence technology, a drive that's in response to one of the biggest threats to its long-established position as the internet's main gateway.
