Understanding the practical applications of business AI

We read about the milestones that AI has surpassed, like Deepmind's AlphaGo beating the world's best Go player or Facebook's facial recognition performing better than you at tagging photos. And to be fair, many of these articles are actually starting to cover the technological advancements without the sensationalist intrusions but I often find myself asking how is it applicable to my work? To develop an intuition for how AI can benefit our own work, we need to take all the content and look at it from the 10,000 ft. It all starts with a well-defined business problem that you want to solve. You don't want to start with machine learning and make up a business problem.