Science fiction has long cautioned us that the rise of artificial intelligence will likely mean the end of humanity. The Matrix, Terminator, Blade Runner…the list goes on. But in the real world, while some are concerned about artificial intelligence in 2017, analysts see huge potential in the industry for some key AI companies. In fact, AI technology will be a key driver of some of the biggest tech companies as it continues to develop. And the AI wars have only just begun. And no, not against humans, but rather between tech giants jostling for dominance in what is one of most promising developments in the tech world.

Many industry analysts are predicting and projecting what the future of business technology will look like. Specifically, how our interactions with virtual and augmented realities will merge with mobile technology. One of the biggest industries that will be impacted is retail. So what does shopping look like in the near future? When Amazon came out with Amazon Go recently, it was hailed as a revolutionary concept.

Intelligent personal assistants have the real potential to transform our daily lives in the nearest future. At least this is what Gartner says in its report on the Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2017. For businesses, this means an excellent opportunity to refine their offers and improve customer experience, providing smarter and more effective ways to handle routine tasks. The great thing about Intelligent apps is that they can become integrated with almost every area of a customer's life. Over the last few years, more and more smart connected devices have been hitting the market, and all these gadgets are usually augmented with digital conversational interfaces.

One Monday afternoon in April 2013, 19-year-old Jordan Green was working in a liquor store in Adelaide, Australia, when two men in balaclavas holding a shotgun entered the store, jumped the counter, held the gun to his head, and demanded his co-worker open the store's safe. It isn't the typical foundation for a company, but this is how Jemsoft was born. As a pragmatist, Green told ZDNet that he approached the situation by questioning how they entered the store with automatic doors and security cameras. Fortunately, Green was also a programmer involved in robotics. "The question in my head was why is it that someone who so clearly was not here to grab a slab could come into the local bottle-o and threaten my life and the life of my co-worker -- who to my knowledge has not returned to work. You could say that I took a pretty radical career change because I then left uni, left that job, and tried to build a company, which is not something a sane person would do," he said.

There is no way to spell "retail" without AI. The power of artificial intelligence (AI) to transform the consumer journey dominated the conversation at Shoptalk this week. In its second year, Shoptalk brought together 5,000-plus players across the full ecosystem to better understand the continuous evolution of how consumers discover, browse and buy in the digital era. AI, which refers to technologies capable of performing tasks normally requiring human intelligence, goes back centuries. The idea of cognitive computing gained steam in the 1940s when Alan Turing suggested that a machine could simulate any conceivable act of mathematical deduction.

John Schrom is an Epidemiologist by training, a Data Scientist by occupation (at Practice Fusion), and a PhD student by hobby. His interests primarily revolve around finding utility in social data, the application and representation of health data, and general data mining and machine learning techniques.

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Machine learning techniques generally produce more accurate predictions. Predictive analytics has become an increasingly important tool for businesses as they look to make better use of all the data they're gathering. Machine learning can provide even more punch to analytics, giving enterprises an even more powerful data resource. AI techniques are becoming part of every day computing: here's how they're being used to help online retailers keep up with the competition. Data analysts are increasingly using machine learning techniques for predictive analytics because they "tend to outperform statistical techniques for prediction problems," said Thomas Dinsmore, an independent consultant and author of Disruptive Analytics.

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