Artificial intelligence: 4 truths CIOs should know

When asked to describe their artificial intelligence efforts to date, many IT leaders attending the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium used two words: "slow" and "hype." As that exercise illustrates, many CIOs are still struggling to cut through the noise and better understand how AI and machine learning will impact their businesses moving forward. Are robots coming to take our jobs? Are we going to fall exponentially behind our competitors if we can't hire the best data scientists to deal with AI? The speakers on stage had some answers to these and other pressing questions around AI.