Artificial Intelligence: Expansion, Adoption and the Value for Business Intelligence

According to Mark Cuban, "The world's first trillionaires are going to come from somebody who masters AI." And as we continue to encounter stories and predictions about AI, we're seeing how it will fundamentally change a variety of industries on an almost day-to-day basis. The challenge, however, lies in effectively explaining what this type of technology can do to improve job functions. The lack of articulating the concept of AI (in this case) is typical of any hype cycle; but, the truth is that implementing systems to make dynamic and complex decisions as a way to displace humans is way off from mainstream adoption. As we move further into 2017, we will start to see the hype die down and broader adoption of AI-based solutions within organizations -- particularly in data analysis and deriving insight from that data.