Machine Learning: Things Are Getting Intense

Five key trends will likely cause a significant uptick in enterprise use of machine learning this year, according to Deloitte Global. Large and medium-sized enterprises will step up their use of machine learning in 2018, Deloitte Global predicts, doubling the number of implementations and pilot projects that were underway in 2017. By 2020, that number will likely have doubled again. And as enabling technologies such as machine learning APIs and specialized hardware become available in the cloud, these advances will likely be increasingly within reach for small companies as well. Machine learning is an artificial intelligence (AI), or cognitive, technology that uses data to enable systems to learn and improve from experience without being programmed explicitly.