3 Ways Machine Learning Optimizes Business Functions

Headlines about machine learning (ML) often accompany stories of futuristic innovations that range from biomedical discoveries to space travel. But some of the most valuable and immediately available applications of ML -- the subset of artificial intelligence whose algorithms rely on historical data to perform tasks with increasing accuracy and without explicit instructions from human programmers -- exist in the continuing quest for greater efficiency in everyday business functions. ML-fueled advancements to natural language processing have been key to professions that have traditionally required employees to read and process long, comprehensive documents mechanically, like finance and law. If you've ever been stuck reading a thousand-page document for work or missed a vital security weakness while doing a network scan, for example, odds are you would have benefited from adopting ML into your workflow. At scale, it can be an industry game-changer.