Washing machine AI? You'll thank AWS, Microsoft, Google (eventually)

The scramble for space driving the commodity race

There's a war brewing in the cloud, and machine learning may well determine the outcome. With infrastructure services trending toward commoditisation, each of the big-three cloud purveyors is racing to augment vanilla IaaS and PaaS with not-so-vanilla machine learning (ML)/artificial intelligence (AI) smarts. Sure, they're way out in front of the market - most enterprises simply aren't doing much with ML - but the hope is that by paving the way to a dystopian future when the machines take over they will make boatloads of money along the way."