Are Chief Artificial Intelligence Officers Really Necessary?

As artificial intelligence (AI) begins to become more popular throughout businesses and industries across the world, we are now seeing robots in places we would have never imagined including supermarkets, hotels, and call centers. And, with the introduction of all the AI comes the need to oversee it and ensure it works in the business' favor of course. But is the role of a chief artificial intelligence officer really necessary? Companies such as Amazon, Facebook, and Google are making AI a central part of their core intellectual property as they recognize the solutions it brings to the sales, manufacturing, logistics and business intelligence sectors. They're employing the use of AI to try and improve productivity, implement automation, and provide predictive analysis.