It seems like every day brings news of some new artificial intelligence (AI) application and/or deployment. In many cases -- like the Amazon Echo or Google Home -- the AI part of the system is performed in the cloud. When I say, "Alexa, turn the Prognostication Engine on," for example, although echo cancellation, noise reduction, and other pre-processing tasks are performed locally, the decoding of my speech by Alexa to decide what I'm waffling on about in order to perform the desired action -- which is to control one of my iClever smart plugs in this example (see "Limping Into the 21st Century with Smart Technology") -- is performed in the cloud on Amazon's servers. As an aside, I'd love to be able to say, "Alexa, activate the Prognostication Engine," but I don't know how to get her to understand that "activate" and "turn on" mean the same thing. In other cases, the AI is performed on a handheld device like a smartphone or tablet, like the multi-layered neural networks employed by the MyScript Nebo application running on my iPad Pro, for example (see "Artificial Intelligence-Based Handwriting Recognition").