Well, first, I would try to understand what "AI" you are talking about and why you have so much confidence it will be big. It's a pretty broad category, and a

Well, first, I would try to understand what "AI" you are talking about and why you have so much confidence it will be big. It's a pretty broad category, and a lot of it is (still) very far from commercialization. It's almost like asking about "the Internet" in 1992. Here are some categories that may help to dive into... -Computer Vision -Natural Language Processing AClustering vs classification in machine learning -Neural nets (convolutional, recursive, hyerparameters and optimizTion techniques) Read "how to create a Mind" by kurtzweil Related (but distinct topics) -Understand rise (and fall) of semantic web -Open/Linked data -Relational vs NoSql databases -distributed/parallel processing (MapReduce ->hadoop-> spark) *edit - typo