Alexa, How Can Government Adopt Artificial Intelligence Faster?

Dave Egts is chief technologist, North America public sector at Red Hat. Artificial intelligence showed a lot of promise decades ago when many thought expert systems and fuzzy logic would be used everywhere. Unfortunately, that didn't quite come to fruition, largely because the concepts were ahead of their time. Today, AI is a reality. We use it at home (the aforementioned Alexa, or Apple's Siri) and at work (so-called smart machines that do everything from monitoring social media traffic to providing second opinions for cancer treatments).