3 Things Execs Should Know About Machine Learning - InformationWeek

Machine learning and artificial intelligence are technologies that have evolved rapidly in the last decade. Most people today are familiar with intelligent voice assistants, streaming video platforms that recommend personalized content, and vehicle navigation systems that suggest best routes in real time to avoid traffic, all examples of artificial intelligence and machine learning in the consumer world. While consumer-facing machine learning often has a narrow focus, enterprise machine learning solutions must cater to many different types of businesses, all of which measure success differently. A consumer can expect Netflix to learn her movie preferences by tracking what she and people similar to her click on, a solution that can be built to be fairly generic. However, enterprise machine learning solutions rarely work as seamlessly right out of the box.