Artificial intelligence (AI) has dramatically altered how we interact with the world and how it interacts with us. Over the past decade, conveniences slipped unobtrusively into our lives as things grew more “intelligent” — our cars, appliances, retail and streaming apps, phones, scales, even our suitcases. The progress mainly enabled by data scientists activating discriminative AI use cases and machine learning capabilities typically arrived without much fanfare from the general public.