How Artificial Intelligence Will Change Decision-Making For Businesses

Artificial Intelligence From The Terminator to Blade Runner, pop culture has always leaned towards a chilling depiction of artificial intelligence (AI) and our future with AI at the helm. Recent headlines about Facebook panicking because their AI bots developed a language of their own have us hitting the alarm button once again. Should we really feel unsettled with an AI future? News flash: that future is here. If you ask Siri, the helpful assistant who magically lives inside your phone, to read text messages and emails to you, find the nearest pizza place or call your mother for you, then you've made AI a part of your everyday life. Even current weather forecasting systems, spam filtering programs, and Google's search engine – among so many other practical applications – are AI-powered. Now, artificial intelligence doesn't seem that alarming, right? AI refers to machine intelligence or a machine's ability to replicate the cognitive functions of a human being. It has the ability to learn and solve problems. In computer science, these machines are aptly called "intelligent agents" or bots. Not all AI are alike.