General Electric builds jet engines and wind turbines and medical gear. But the 124-year-old industrial giant is also transforming itself for the digital age. It's fashioning software that pulls data from all this hardware, hoping to gain an insight into industrial operations that was never possible in the past. The problem is that analyzing all this data is difficult, and the talent needed to make it happen is scarce. So GE is going shopping.

Traditionally (whatever that means in this context), machine learning has been executed in single processor environments, where algorithmic bottlenecks can lead to substantial delays in model processing, from training, to classification, to distance and error calculations, and beyond. Beyond recent technology-harnessing in neural networking training, much of machine learning - including both off-the-shelf libraries like scikit-learn and DIY algorithm implementation - has been approached without the use of parallel processing. The lack of parallel processing, in this context referring to parallel execution on a shared-memory architecture, inhibits the potential exploitation of large numbers of concurrently-executing threads performing independent tasks in order to achieve economy of performance. The dearth of parallelism is attributable to all sorts of reasons, not the least of which being that parallel programming is hard. Also, parallel processing is not magic, and cannot "just be used" in every situation; there are both practical and theoretical algorithmic design issues that must be considered when even thinking about incorporating parallel processing into a project.

When cars exit the tunnel of the next 15 years, they'll be like giant smartphones. Their sensors will capture sight, sound and motion and transmit the information to the Internet quickly and affordably. The $100-billion app economy built on data from smartphones would look small compared with the $750 billion in revenue produced around cars. The forecast has automakers buzzing. As they accelerate spending on developing self-driving cars, they're devoting enormous attention on what to do with data that those high-tech devices generate -- beyond making the drive automated.

Chuck and Ravi are the two main characters in a fictional podcast series, written by SciFutures, to help VMware promote the ideas of network virtualization and business mobility. Neo: "What I need is for you guys to have a look at the human energy pods and find a better technical solution." In fact, for an array this size, I bet it would cut your provisioning time in half -- maybe even a third." Neo: "So, we wouldn't have to have The Matrix... Reloaded. That's the premise of Episode 1 of the podcast I.T. Sci-Fi, a series commissioned by VMware.

We may be years away from the "AI-enabled Coworker," but the first implementations of machine-learning capabilities are finding their way into the everyday data-analysis tools used by businesses of all types. Cognitive assistance promises to reshape business processes, but only if app development and deployment tools are adapted to support machine learning. While it has become fashionable to hypeAIas the next game-changing technology promising to have an impact greater than either mobile or cloud, the reality is that machine learning will be a long time coming to everyday business analytics. As with any sea change, cognition is likely to sneak its way into applications and processes in drips and drops. It looks like 2017 could be the year many businesses get their first hands-on experience with cognitive-learning business apps.

We're going to be blunt: Chatbots in their current form aren't great. We were promised bots that would change the way we interact with businesses and services, but instead we have interactive bots that perform worse than apps. They are primarily focused on taps or interactive graphical interfaces, and conversing with them using natural language is nearly impossible. Take an example of Poncho Weather on Facebook Messenger. Let's say I'm going to a conference next Monday in San Diego and want to know what the forecast is.

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We may be years away from the "AI-enabled Coworker," but the first implementations of machine-learning capabilities are finding their way into the everyday data-analysis tools used by businesses of all types. Cognitive assistance promises to reshape business processes, but only if app development and deployment tools are adapted to support machine learning. While it has become fashionable to hypeAIas the next game-changing technology promising to have an impact greater than either mobile or cloud, the reality is that machine learning will be a long time coming to everyday business analytics. As with any sea change, cognition is likely to sneak its way into applications and processes in drips and drops. It looks like 2017 could be the year many businesses get their first hands-on experience with cognitive-learning business apps.