AI is not just for big business: how smaller companies can tap into the tech revolution

Artificial intelligence (AI) is thrown into conversations about the future of business tech with increasing frequency. Many enterprises now have programmers beavering away on bespoke algorithms to automate tasks or services, which they hope will give them a competitive advantage. These algorithms are trained on vast data sets and eventually learn how to correctly identify common patterns without human intervention. They take time to design, and they don't come cheap. But that doesn't mean AI is purely for the big beasts of the business world.