How AI And Machine Learning Are Helping Drive The GE Digital Transformation

General Electric (GE) was co-founded in 1897 by Thomas Edison. Today, 120 years later, GE is the single company with the longest continual presence in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, and is undergoing one of the most dramatic transformation initiatives of any major company. Mainstream legacy businesses should take note. In a matter of only a few years, GE has migrated from being an industrial and consumer products and financial services firm to a "digital industrial" company with a strong focus on the "Industrial Internet" and $7 billion in software sales in 2016. This is the story of how GE has accomplished this digital transformation by leveraging AI and machine learning fueled by the power of Big Data.