While there are debates on the hype of AI, the reality makes it evident that deployments are increasing in every sector. However, it must be noted that the technology is still evolving. Kunal Sama, Senior Consultant, SAS affirms that facial recognition and intelligence is still witnessing evolution, while sharing that 61 per cent of organisations have chosen AI and ML as areas of interest; and there has been three-fold growth in investments in AI in 2017, compared to 2016. SAS is already helping a state forest department to identify tigers from their stripe patterns. Whereas in Maharashtra, the company has created chatbots using SAS platform.