Artificial Intelligence: 5 Technology Executives Report from the Front Lines

A recent National Business Research Institute (NBRI) survey of 235 business executives found that 38% of enterprises are already using AI technologies and 62% plan to use them by 2018. Big data has spawned the current interest and increased investment in artificial intelligence. The availability of large volumes of data--plus new algorithms and more computing power--have finally pulled AI out of its long "winter." At Straight Talk, we like to hear directly from tech executives, in this case those who have been applying machine learning, predictive analytics, text analysis, voice processing and other AI technologies to their organizations' data, processes, and interactions with customers. At Schneider Electric, Prith Banerjee, executive vice president and CTO, reports on the successful marriage of machine learning with another emerging set of technologies--the Internet of Things or the IoT.