Recent cloud statistics and predictions report that worldwide spending on public cloud services will grow from 70 billion in 2015 to more than 141 billion in 2019. Those numbers are positive, indicating that earlier concerns around reliability and security are leveling out. When the public cloud became a bona fide trend about 10 years ago, executives were encouraged at the prospect that Amazon, Microsoft, Google and others could save their company money on licensing, support, management and hardware. IT people were wondering if it would kill their jobs, though the forward-looking ones thought that the cloud might enable IT-based innovation like never before. What has been interesting to see are the business innovations that would have been cost-heavy with an on-premises infrastructure.

In today's fast-paced digital realm, the rules are constantly changing. Traditional marketing channels have evolved into new ones, and CMOs are continually challenged. They've spent the last seven years tackling the ins and outs of new mobile and social platforms--investing in new platforms and adjusting media budgets to stay ahead. Now that they finally have everything hashed out, customers are rapidly moving away from standalone mobile apps into the more immediate, intimate world of messaging--to the tune of 100X growth in use YoY in both the US and UK. While some suggest "conversational commerce" is the next big thing--10K developers are already building on wit.ai,

In his ninth post in the series, Marshall Kirkpatrick focuses on the intersection between artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things. By way of reminder, Marshall launched a 30 day series that explores the intersection between AI and the various innovation components on my emerging futures visual. As he has in each post, Marshall identifies the key subject matter experts that sit at the intersection of AI and the visual component in question. In the case of the Internet of Things, the key influencers are: Ajit Jaokar, Michael Cavaretta, Mike Gualtieri and Roger Strukhoff. Here is the foresight and related future scenarios identified at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence and the Internet of Things (taken straight from Marshall's post): Beyond island computing: Connected buildings and devices become hyper efficient by sharing knowledge and experiments.

In this episode of The Kennedy-Mighell Report, hosts Dennis Kennedy and Tom Mighell consider the increased popularity of artificial intelligence, the usefulness of chatbots, and how both innovations can impact the practice of law. Tom speculates that the current data age and the large volumes of information available for analysis have helped to enable the advancements in machine learning and artificial intelligence. Dennis explores exactly what machine learning means and explains the three current learning types: unsupervised, supervised, and reinforced. Tom finds the technology perplexing and uses the definition of Tenser Flow to illustrate how grasping these advanced concepts requires more education and technology knowledge than the average lawyer possesses. They both discuss the AI lawyer Ross and if legal professionals should gain technical knowledge in order to influence future ethical regulations with emergent technology.

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It takes years, decades even, for physicians to refine the expertise required to notice details that remain invisible to the untrained. This aptitude, depending on a doctor's specialty, might mark the difference between an oncologist knowing a malignant tumor from a benign cyst. It can help a cardiologist determine the velocity of blood as it flows through a hole in the heart. Or it may tell a reconstructive plastic surgeon whether a severe burn is healing nicely or at risk of infection. None of this is easy unless you know how to see in a certain way.

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While Artificial Intelligence is conquering the chatbot world, something similar is happening in the Marketing Automation industry too. Innovative, new technologies are appearing day by day that reinvents the way we – marketers – do our daily routine. Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence fundamentally change our job description: solves different pain points we and our company face and help us move to a more strategic position. We need to know what type of skills we have to learn before it is too late. Therefore I asked 14 seasoned experts about their opinion: how could Artificial Intelligence be used in Marketing Automation?

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