It’s been a rough year for the tech world, and Silicon Valley giants are scaling back and regrouping. But one area companies are loath to cut back on in the year ahead, if this earnings season is any indication, is artificial intelligence.
Up until very recently, tech giants seemed to be playing it safe with A.I. Facebook, for instance, has been experimenting with A.I. and chatbots for years, but the massive size and bureaucracy of the sector’s biggest companies have also been criticized for stifling rapid innovation leaps in deep science fields, such as artificial intelligence.
