AI is an omnipresent phenomenon that impacts (and potentially shatters to smithereens) many of the ways in which we live and work. Such is the importance and wide-ranging nature of the changes we are starting to see that the AI wave can appear overwhelming and scary. But in a new report, the business technology analyst IDC describes this multifaceted shift as “AI Everywhere” and does a good job in describing how we can expect the uber trend of AI to play out. In this article I want to break out some of these shifts and, I hope, take away some of the hype, jargon and frothiness that masks what is really occurring.