AI as a service to solve your business problems? Guess again – TechCrunch

SaaS, PaaS – and now AIaaS: Entrepreneurial, forward-thinking companies will attempt to provide customers of all types with artificial intelligence-powered plug-and-play solutions for myriad business problems. Industries of all types are embracing off-the-shelf AI solutions. According to industry experts, global AI software revenue -- most of it online artificial intelligence as a service software (AIaaS) -- is set to grow by an astounding annual rate of 34.9%, with the market reaching over $100 billion by 2025. It sounds like a great idea, but there is a caveat -- "one-size-fits-all" syndrome. Companies seeking to use AI as a differentiating technology in order to gain business advantages -- and not merely doing it because that's what everyone else is doing -- require planning and strategy, and that almost always means a customized solution.