The Rise of Artificial Intelligence in Enterprise

Depending on what news headline you have read, you may have perceived an Artificial Intelligence (AI) system as either an Alexa or Siri assistant that understands all your commands, a deep learning system that can recognize dog or a cat from image, a system that recommends personalized medicine, or an intelligent, overpowering machine that can overtake all human tasks and render humans useless. Few of these definitions can be termed as visionary, few fear mongering and rest of them being evolutionary. Last month, I was at Artificial Intelligence (AI) Summit 2018 in San Francisco. The event highlighted the state of AI business as it stands today and real-world examples from enterprises who are using AI to transform their business. I want to give a shout out to organizers of AI Summit – they did a fabulous job in bringing a highly diverse set of speakers across a variety of verticals.