Perspective Don't believe the hype: Artificial intelligence isn't taking over business decision-making

While AI systems can now learn a game and beat champions within hours, they are hard to apply to business applications. MIT Sloan Management Review and Boston Consulting Group surveyed 3,000 business executives and found that while 85 percent of them thought that AI would provide their companies with a competitive advantage, only 1 in 20 had "extensively" incorporated it into their offerings or processes. The challenge is that implementing AI isn't as easy as installing software. It requires expertise, vision and information that isn't easily accessible. When you look at well-known applications of AI, such as Google's AlphaGo Zero, you get the impression it is like magic: AI learned the world's most difficult board game in just three days and beat champions; Nvidia's AI can generate photorealistic images of people who look like celebrities just by looking at pictures of real ones.