2018's Artificial Intelligence Trends

Artificial intelligence (AI) continued to be a major driver of digital transformation in 2017, with the rapidly advancing technology affecting business strategy and operations, customer interactions and the workforce itself. While these are all general and broad impacts of AI, they will continue to be important for businesses trying to keep up with rapid technological advancements in 2018. Embedded deep learning will become the focus of software product teams in the coming year, as buyers will begin to inquire about the machine learning as a service capabilities of the tools they are purchasing. Many vendors are already including machine learning in products to enhance and automate certain functionalities, and build marketing campaigns around those AI enhancements. As embedded AI becomes more standard in solutions, there will be less of an emphasis around the glitz and glamour of machine learning and more of a focus on how the embedded AI is contributing to a business' overall digital transformation.