The promise and pitfalls of AI and deep learning

Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer the stuff of science fiction. The majority of businesses today are using AI in some form, and those that aren't have plans to in the near future. Deep learning, a technique that's largely responsible for the widespread adoption of AI, has gained particular momentum as of late, with leading companies like Google, Microsoft and Amazon introducing deep learning across their services and replacing their existing machine learning systems with deep learning-based models. A recent O'Reilly study on how businesses are putting AI to work through deep learning, found that 54 percent of businesses predict deep learning will play a large or essential role in their future projects. Another 38 percent expect to use some amount of deep learning, and only eight percent of businesses said deep learning wouldn't play a role in their future projects.