AI as a service. Of course, we should have known that one was coming. 

Originally shared by Kevin Kelly

You can buy AI on the cloud. Google is selling image recognition for 60 cents per thousand. This is the first example of selling commodity AI on the grid.

http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2016/02/Google-Cloud-Vision-API-enters-beta-open-to-all-to-try.html