Here's what top investors are asking about AI

Last week I attended the KeyBanc Capital Markets Emerging Technology Summit. As a participant in their Mosaic industry leaders program, my role at the conference was to participate in one-on-one and group meetings with their institutional investor clients as a subject matter expert on machine learning and artificial intelligence. Having spent a couple of packed days answering questions, from various angles, about the state of the AI market and those serving it, I thought I'd reflect on some of the key themes that arose from their questions, along with my take on each. Over the course of the past five years or so, enterprises have worked hard to deploy machine learning. Much of this work began in those parts of an organization with experience applying statistical analyses to core businesses challenges.