ABSTRACT
Proponents say Artificial Intelligence (AI) will be dominant in digital future and companies should get on the AI bandwagon. Tractica, a market research firm, forecasted huge market growth globally for AI systems, expecting revenue to increase from about $10 billion in 2018 to $126 billion by 2025. The more capable and wonderful computer systems become, the more people realize that they are still just great programs, instead of possessing intelligence. In the early days, the MIT AI Lab experimented with automatically balancing an inverted pendulum to simulate a child balancing a broomstick on an open palm. Google Translate can translate words, phrases, sentences and even paragraphs from one language to another, among around 100 languages. It can even make pronunciations. Even though the path to AI is still long and uncertain, many useful programming techniques have been devised along the way that greatly enhance the capabilities and smartness of programs.
