Over the last 30 years, Wall Street and investors have seen no shortage of next-big-thing investment trends come and go. But no promised high-growth trend has come anywhere close to matching what the advent of the internet did for corporate America -- that is, until now.

According to the analysts at PwC, artificial intelligence (AI) is forecast to add $15.7 trillion to the global economy by 2030 through a combination of consumption-side effects and production improvements.

AI involves the use of software and systems in place of humans. What makes AI such a groundbreaking technology is the ability for these systems to "learn" over time without human intervention. This should, in theory, make AI-driven software and systems more proficient at their tasks over time, as well as allow these systems to potentially learn new tasks.

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