Machine learning is a poor fit for most businesses

Machine learning is the new battle cry for the cloud world. Until cloud computing came along, machine learning was out of reach for most enterprise IT shops. It should be no surprise that Amazon Web Services, Google, IBM, and Microsoft offer machine learning services in their clouds. Machine learning is valuable only for use cases that benefit from dynamic learning -- and there are not many of those. Examples of machine learning use cases include financial systems that deal with risk, medical diagnosis, or recommendation systems like those at Amazon.com.