Two tech trends shaping 2018 and beyond

[anapodrimaj]

Technology is changing rapidly: autonomous vehicles, connected devices, digital transformation, the Internet of Things (IoT), machine learning, artificial intelligence (AI), automation. The list goes on. And it has only begun.

Over the last decade, a tremendous amount of effort has gone into optimizing how algorithms train. As a result, AI has made impressive advances, supported by supervised deep learning that trains deep neural networks to perform narrow, single-domain tasks. Although with supervised learning we tell the algorithm the correct answer (the label) as it is exposed to many examples (big data), it is powerful and can create systems with superhuman capabilities.

https://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/2018/01/18/two-tech-trends-shaping-2018-beyond/?utm_source=FBPAGE&utm_medium=social-sprinklr&utm_content=1293417621

[cynical]

The IOT and AI are indeed shaping tech trends and to the forefront at the moment is the automotive industry.

It is no wonder that the largest automotive supplier in the world BOSCH has invested in IOTA.
http://www.bosch-presse.de/pressportal/de/en/robert-bosch-venture-capital-makes-first-investment-in-distributed-ledger-technology-137411.html

“Distributed ledger technology will play an important role in the industry of tomorrow,” said Dr. Ingo Ramesohl, Managing Director at RBVC.

As technology moves forward we are going to see more and more "things" connecting to an internet,
the oven, washing machine, heating, motors etc. and this is set to grow massively as per the following.

The Internet of things (IoT) is the network of physical devices, vehicles, home appliances and other items embedded with electronics, software, sensors, actuators, and connectivity which enables these objects to connect and exchange data.[1][2][3] Each thing is uniquely identifiable through its embedded computing system but is able to inter-operate within the existing Internet infrastructure.

Experts estimate that the IoT will consist of about 30 billion objects by 2020.[4] It is also estimated that the global market value of IoT will reach $7.1 trillion by 2020.[5]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_of_things