O'Reilly machine learning survey: Enterprises aim for maturity

The results of the survey, The State of Machine Learning Adoption in the Enterprise, suggest that sophisticated companies don't shoehorn enterprise machine learning into the category of software engineering. "I think the community is starting to realize more and more that this is not quite the same as regular software development," Lorica said. Indeed, more experienced companies appear to be adjusting their culture and are experimenting with processes to meet new challenges presented by enterprise machine learning -- for good reason. "If you talk to people who do a lot of this, one of the things they'll tell you is that a lot of the work actually happens once you deploy the model to production," Lorica said. "Models degrade, they can misbehave, and so you have to monitor them; you have to know when to retrain them."