Since the advent of the internet roughly three decades ago, investors have pretty much always had a buzzy trend or innovation to captivate their attention. However, none of these other next-big-thing trends came anywhere close to rivaling what the internet did for corporate America.

But after a long wait, the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution has left professional and everyday investors wide-eyed with its potential.

Although estimates vary, as you'd expect from a game-changing technology, the analysts at PwC see AI adding $15.7 trillion (yes, with a "t") to the global economy via various consumption-side benefits and productivity gains by the turn of the decade.

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Source Fool.com