Big Data and Artificial Intelligence – Match Made in Heaven

IDC forecasts that the by 2020, 44 zettabytes data will be created. That's a humongous amount of data and even if a small percentage of it is useful for businesses, it is still a lot of data. It is beyond the capability of humans to process this data to derive any actionable insights. That's where Artificial Intelligence comes into the picture. Artificial Intelligence, a branch of Computer Science, is also known as machine learning. It adds the intelligence wrapper on top of big data to handle complex analytical tasks.