Experts say AI Has the Potential to Put Enterprises on Autopilot

"Today, AI augments what we do, but in the future you'll see decisions made by (AI) entities," said Bernt Wahl, executive director of the Brain Machine Consortium. Wahl argues a logical progression of technological advances will result in smarter, more proactive AI systems. "With the web we created all these search engines and collected all this information," said Wahl, adding that systems like IBM's Watson now help determine whether all that information being collected is accurate. "In the future we'll have a'wisdom engine' that can take the knowledge we know is accurate and make decisions based on that,' he said. Jack Berkowitz, vice president of products and data science for Oracle's Adaptive Intelligence effort said AI has proven useful in helping companies filter the massive amounts of new data they're accumulating. "We call our program adaptive intelligence because it's about learning and adaptation and keeping pace," said Berkowitz. "Companies that try to keep up using the kind of rules-based systems we've had for years won't be able to.