IT services and consulting company Accenture is launching new services for testing artificial intelligence systems to help companies build own AI-driven products and services based locally or on the cloud. "The adoption of AI is accelerating as businesses see its transformational value to power new innovations and growth," Bhaskar Ghosh, group chief executive, Accenture Technology Services, said in a statement. "As organisations embrace AI, it is critical to find better ways to train and sustain these systems – securely and with quality – to avoid adverse effects on business performance, brand reputation, compliance and humans," Ghosh said. The Dublin-headquartered company said the new testing services works in two phases. While the first phase helps companies focus on choice of data, models and algorithms to teach the machine learning engine, the second phase helps them compare results of the engine with key performance indicators and understand if the engine can explain the decision-making process.