[mod.ai] AI Software Revenues

E1AR0002@SMUVM1.BITNET.UUCP (02/28/87)

Artificial intelligence software generated $200 million dollars in
revenue in 1986.  Expert system tools generated 18.6 million.
To put these numbers in perspective, the total software market is
12.3 billion and CAD/CAE software is 665 million.
Also sold in 1986, was
464 million dollars worth of robot systems and 100 million dollars
worth of vision equipment.