A 2019 Forecast for Data-Driven Business: From AI to Ethics

AI/Machine Learning--AI continued to grow in popularity over the past year, becoming well-institutionalized within many large enterprises. We argued in a previous post, however, that too many companies employed AI pilots and prototypes, and not enough firms had implemented production deployments. As with analytics, the use of AI is increasingly being democratized through automated machine learning (AutoML). Several contributors to KD Nuggets' review of AI and ML trends for 2019 suggested that AutoML would become more popular over the next year. It will make machine learning models easier to create for business analyst types, as well as dramatically increasing the productivity of data scientists--that is, if they can be persuaded to use it.