What is Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

One of the disruptive technologies that has gained increasingly more attention after the turn of the century is Machine Learning. Machine Leaning – closely related and usually considered as a subfield of Artificial Intelligence (AI) – is the process of automatic detection of usable patterns within data. The detection of these patterns is performed with the help of machine learning algorithms which are specifically tailored to deal with complex and large data sets. Such powerful algorithms have the potential of drastically revolutionizing the way of doing business and how businesses operate. With this article I will provide an overview of opportunities that machine learning algorithms and Artificial Intelligence (AI) pose to the business environment.