The Emerging Role of AI and Machine Learning in the Enterprise

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning have advanced significantly in recent years. Once the stuff of science fiction novels, AI and machine learning are gaining traction in the enterprise, offering tremendous promise for improving organizational profitability and efficiency. First, it's important to distinguish the differences between AI, machine language, and their various subsets. AI, which had been focused around the use of inference engines in the 1980s and 1990s, is the use of computers to simulate human reasoning. A familiar current example of this is IBM Watson, which can examine thousands of pieces of text to identify trends and offer up conclusions.