This little USB stick is designed to make AI plug-and-play

Step by step, artificial intelligence is moving down from the cloud and into the device in your hand. The latest sign? This unassuming little thumb drive from chipmaker Movidius, which packs one of the company's machine vision processors -- the same chip used by DJI for its autonomous drones -- into a plug-and-play USB stick. If manufacturers want to beef up the AI capabilities of their new product, all they need to do is plug in one of these. The Movidius Neural Compute Stick was actually announced last April as a prototype device called the Fathom. But then Intel came a'calling, and bought Movidius in September that year for an undisclosed...