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16 DESIGN007 MAGAZINE I SEPTEMBER 2018 average person might believe. Overall, we can expect very significant advances in AI over the next few years. I would guess that there will not be a segment of modern civiliza- tion that will not see advances beyond what was envisioned at the turn of the century. AI will change things for sure, but will all these changes be for the good? We will have to wait and see. Price Waterhouse Cooper has been following the top trends in AI in 2018 [1] , as shown in Figure 4. Of all the trends shown in Figure 4, the most influential ones in the short term (and there are others) are what really get my attention as I study this topic: deep learning theory, proba- bilistic programming, and automated machine learning. If you want more examples and far more detail, see Reference 1. In the meantime, I believe a prediction from my hero Nikola Tesla, in 1926, can help us to imagine what might be possible with AI. Remember, in 1926 global communication was possibly only by radio code, telegraph and basic one-way (at a time) radio with operator- assisted telephone. Primitive TV had recently been demonstrated. But Tesla knew this was the beginning of better things to come: When wireless is perfectly applied, the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain, which in fact it is, all things being particles of a real and rhythmic whole. We shall be able to com- municate with one another instantly, irrespec- tive of distance. Not only this, but through tele- vision and telephony we shall see and hear one another as perfectly as though we were face to face, despite intervening distances of thousands of miles; and the instruments through which we shall be able to do this will be amazingly simple compared with our present telephone. A man will be able to carry one in his vest pocket. —Nikola Tesla The topic of artificial intelligence itself is immensely broad and the possibilities are vast. I expect CES 2019 will truly begin to show the integration of AI into the other disruptive tech- nologies and the effect that will have on the devices our industry will be required to pro- duce in the decade ahead. We'll touch base again after CES. DESIGN007 References 1. Price Waterhouse Cooper's Top 10 Artifi- cial Intelligence Technology Trends for 2018. Dan Feinberg is the owner and president of FeinLine Associates Inc. and the technology editor for I-Connect007. To read his past columns or to contact Feinberg, click here. Figure 4: The top trends in artificial intelligence in 2018. Figure 5: In the future, will the human brain be integrated with AI functionality? [1]