According to Oren Etzioni, CEO of Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, companies are increasingly taking to artificial intelligence (AI) for two reasons: to ride the AI wave from a marketing point of view and be a part of a very real shift in which AI is poised to play an increasingly large role in our future.
And companies like Facebook, Google and Microsoft are just some of the giants that are fighting to win this battle. This article in Wired explains how each company is trying to best the other. Click to read more on the growth of AI.