Artificial Intelligence is actually every where in our life. When you get your route analysis on your map apps, it's AI. When iPhone's Siri helps you solve problems, it's AI. And it's the force of investment capital that supports the technological development in this field.
--First, healthcare could really use AI to make treatment more efficient. The sector sees the most capital chasing AI tech. AI can also be used in data computing, advertising, retail and visual technology.
--The private investment volume in the AI sector reached 15 billion U.S. dollars in 2014. That's the most in the past five years. The volume eased a little to 12 billion U.S. dollars last year.
--When it comes to the core asset of AI, patents, Microsoft is leading the game. IBM is overshadowed in second place. Yahoo and Google follow in the third and fourth spots, respectively.
AI is expected to take 5.1 million jobs from humans in the world's top 15 economies over the next five years. That's scary and reminds some of those sci-fi horror movies.
