Artificial Intelligence. Do you want it?

In an interview with Bloomberg, Accenture's charismatic CEO, Pierre Nanterme, was asked what the companies'big bets' currently are, and his answer was very clear – Artificial Intelligence (AI). Everywhere I look, and everything I read about the next frontier in digital points towards AI. The big consultancies are building infrastructure to deliver this, organisations like Facebook and Amazon are already using AI and are planning big things for the technology in the future. But, are we, as customers ready for the next wave of innovation? Artificial Intelligence is no longer Sci-Fi, it has arrived and is developing fast – huge advances in the development of natural language processing, cognitive computing and machine learning have ensured this.