How Intelligent Machines Learn to Make Sense of the World

Home Depot uses it to show which bathtubs in its huge inventory will fit someone's oddly shaped bathroom. Apple uses it to present customers with relevant apps from the app store. Intuit uses it to display the right help page when a user is filling out a particular tax form. And organizations are turning to it in droves to differentiate and innovate their offerings. In a recent interview, Gartner Fellow and Vice President Tom Austin noted that about half of large enterprises are experimenting with "smart computing" projects.