It's Still Early Days for Machine Learning Adoption

Despite the hype surrounding artificial intelligence, we're still in the early stages of adopting machine learning in the enterprise, according to a new survey released today by O'Reilly Media. The survey also found that large-scale production deep learning rarely happens on the cloud, and that companies pursuing machine learning are actively embracing privacy, security, and fairness. Nearly half (49%) of the 11,400 people who took O'Reilly's survey this June indicated they were in the exploration phase of machine learning and have not deployed any machine learning models into production. That compares to 36% of who said they were an early adopter (models in production from two to five years), while 15% considered themselves sophisticated users (models in production for more than five years). "A lot of people are very interested in machine learning, but a lot of them are in the getting-started phase in terms of actually putting these things into productions in products and services," O'Reilly's Chief Data Scientist Ben Lorica tells Datanami.