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5 Artificial Intelligence Trends To Watch Out For In 2019 Posted on : Dec 17 - 2018

During 2018, we witnessed a dramatic rise in the platforms, tools, and applications based on Machine learning and artificial intelligence. These technologies not only impacted software and the Internet industry but also other verticals such as healthcare, legal, manufacturing, automobile and agriculture.

We will continue to see the advancement of ML and AI-related technologies in 2019 and beyond. Companies such as Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, IBM and Microsoft are investing in research and development of AI, which will benefit the ecosystem in bringing AI closer to consumers.

Here are 5 AI trends to watch out for in 2019:

1) The rise of AI-enabled chips

Unlike other software, AI heavily relies on specialized processors that complement the CPU. Even the fastest and most advanced CPU may not improve the speed of training an AI model. While inferencing, the model needs additional hardware to perform complex mathematical computations to speed up tasks such as object detection and facial recognition.

In 2019, chip manufacturers such as Intel, NVIDIA, AMD, ARM and Qualcomm will ship specialized chips that speed up the execution of AI-enabled applications. These chips will be optimized for specific use cases and scenarios related to computer vision, natural language processing and speech recognition. Next generation applications from the healthcare and automobile industries will rely on these chips for delivering intelligence to end-users.

2019 will also be the year where hyperscale infrastructure companies like Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Facebook will increase the investments in custom chips based on field programmable gate arrays (FPGA) and application specific integrated circuits (ASIC). These chips will be heavily optimized for running modern workloads based on AI and high-performance computing (HPC). Some of these chips will also assist next-generation databases to speed up query processing and predictive analytics. View More