Big Data, IoT, and AI: 2017 Predictions

The Internet of Things, or IoT, for short, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and big data are currently the 3 biggest trends in 2017. The rise of block-chain technology is something that should be expected for the 2017 year. Data being used as self-service solutions is rapidly growing, thus enabling organizations to explore their data without needing to build an entire data science department. Additionally, it can be expected that many companies switch over to using to the cloud as a preferred choice in order to reduce their spending on data centers. Because of using the cloud, the insight would can be available to individuals below the corporate level executives.

“Forbes describes the Internet of Things as the concept of connecting any device with an on and off switch to the internet (and/or to each other)” (thenextweb.com). Devices with on/off switches such as smart home technology are a couple examples of how the IoT is rapidly growing. Two areas that are believed to be the focus of IoT include Smart Homes and smart cities.

Artificial Intelligence can be defined as “the capability of a machine to imitate intelligent human behavior” (thenextweb.com). AI can best be recognized prominently in recent technology when Amazon released Alexa. Alexa stores a plethora of information, ranging from answers to questions you ask such as what the weather is, and storing the question itself in its data.

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