OracleVoice: AI Is The Wave, And CIOs Must Learn To Surf

CIOs take note: When even the White House wants to take a serious look at the potential repercussions of artificial intelligence, you should, too. After years percolating in the backwaters of IT, AI is catching a dynamic wave of interest and investment. Self-driving cars and Go-playing computers have grabbed the public's attention. But AI's potential to dramatically improve cost/benefit equations is why "CIOs should start looking at how this is going to change the business they're in and potentially disrupt the types of applications they're using," says IDC Research Director David Schubmehl. If robotics is the face of AI, the beating heart is what's known as machine learning--the ability to program a computer to recognize patterns and build models that let it make decisions or generate predictions.