Never mind the Elon--the forecast isn't that spooky for AI in business

Despite Elon Musk's warnings this summer, there's not a whole lot of reason to lose any sleep worrying about Skynet and the Terminator. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is far from becoming a maleficent, all-knowing force. The only "Apocalypse" on the horizon right now is an over reliance by humans on machine learning and expert systems, as demonstrated by the deaths of Tesla owners who took their hands off the wheel. Examples of what currently pass for "Artificial Intelligence"--technologies such as expert systems and machine learning--are excellent for creating software that can help in contexts that involve pattern recognition, automated decision-making, and human-to-machine conversations. Both types have been around for decades.