3 Ways AI Can Improve Your Business Right Now

The portrait of artificial intelligence that the film industry paints features polished, albeit conflicted, protagonists. Films such as "The Terminator" and "Ex Machina" center around attractive, humanized robots who go off the rails and threaten their makers. In real life, however, AI is an integral part of our everyday lives that should be a little less intimidating. A joint survey between the MIT Sloan Management Review and The Boston Consulting Group found that while 61 percent of executives believe that AI should be a high priority for their organizations, only half those leaders have put a strategy in place. And for the leaders who hesitate, there's a lot to lose -- 84 percent of the MIT/BCG survey respondents think AI comes with a competitive advantage, while 75 percent believe it yields new business.