Assessing the role AI will play in your company's future

The field of artificial intelligence has enjoyed tremendous progress over the past few years. Thanks to a number of advances, both technological and algorithmic, a new wave of AI applications is forming, turning what once belonged exclusively to futuristic sci-fi or dystopian stories into commoditized, ubiquitous technology. Nevertheless, despite what you might have heard, AI is not quite ready to take over the world. While we are witnessing it achieve remarkable -- and oftentimes superhuman -- performance in tasks previously regarded as outside the bounds of computers, AI systems are still narrow in scope and remain, in essence, a prediction technology. Generally, machine intelligence is unable to adapt to similar but different tasks, barring substantial work and human intervention, and most crucially it lacks certain fundamental "general intelligence" traits such as deductive reasoning and the ability to learn how to learn.