Oracle vs. Salesforce on AI: What to expect when ZDNet

Oracle and Salesforce both announced "AI" initiatives this week, but there are differences in the scope and scale of what's promised, the pace of their rollouts, and even how they're talking about artificial intelligence. For starters, neither vendor is talking about the sort of sentient, general-purpose AI seen in science fiction depictions ranging from "Iron Man" and "Star Trek" to "The Terminator" and "2001 a Space Odyssey." Rather, both vendors are talking about assisting humans with "smart" apps that apply closed-loop machine learning and data science to combinations of customer data and third-party data. In some apps you'll also see human-to-machine and machine-to-human interaction capabilities including natural language processing, voice recognition, and machine vision. Oracle Adaptive Intelligent Apps are powered by the Web-scale Oracle Data Cloud andthe company's massive cloud compute capacity.