How CEOs Can Decode The Alphabet Soup Of Machine Learning

Two words that are spoken in every leadership and board meeting around the world right now are "machine learning". Technology buzzwords seem to monopolize these meetings. Who could forget: digital, big data, internet of things (IoT), mobility, …-as-a-service, security, the cloud and the recent favorite, blockchain? Now, machine learning, deep learning, reinforcement learning, and numerous other technological terms that describe the artificial intelligence space have become this year's buzzwords. I've been in meetings with other executives where most people, including me, can't make heads or tails of what people are talking about when this subject comes up.