Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) solutions, considered emerging technologies just a few years ago, are now within reach of more businesses, and they offer faster insights, greater efficiency, and enhanced customer experiences. The following industry thought leaders offer their predictions for how AI and ML will impact businesses across the range of vertical markets in 2023. "While active work is going on using AI for intelligent automation, an interesting trend in AI and ML is collaborative learning, that is, enabling AI to augment human intelligence. Through this collaborative intelligence, humans enable AI to train and learn the tacit knowledge that otherwise cannot be learned solely from the data, while AI enhances the human ability to make fast, informed, and smart decisions. This will not just level-up automation but will also enable more creative AI-human collaborations." "AI will yield tremendous breakthroughs in treating medical conditions in the next few years.

Artificial intelligence for IT operations, AIOps, refers to the application of machine learning and data science to IT operations. AIOps systems monitor huge volumes of log and performance data typically generated in a large enterprise, to gain visibility into dependencies and solve problems. These include user requests and non-critical IT system alerts. For example, a help desk system can process and fulfill a user request to provision a resource automatically. The system is also able to evaluate alerts and determine which ones require action, and which are based on metrics and supporting data within normal parameters.

Self-driving cars and medical advances may grab all the headlines, but artificial intelligence is being applied to any number of less high-profile applications across a variety of industries. Perhaps the most unsung and yet closest to home for IT organizations comes in the form of "AIOps." That could be because applying artificial intelligence to IT operations is still an emerging area, so it hasn't garnered much attention. But early indications are that this is a growing area. It's too small for the Magic Quadrant treatment at Gartner, but in August 2017, Gartner issued a Market Guide for AIOps platforms.

On Thursday, Moogsoft, maker of an AI platform for IT automation, invited a few corporate customers and like-thinking vendors to testify to the saving grace of AI-driven IT automation. CEO Phil Tee opened the second annual AIOps Symposium by questioning the pursuit of data. Enterprises gather 44TB of data daily, he said, and that's set to increase forty time over the next decade. Yet very little meaningful information comes from those bits and bytes, he insisted. "The more data you have, the more data you need to understand the data you have," said Tee. "You are engaged in a data ponzi scheme."

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Artificial Intelligence is set to disrupt every industry vertical. While scenarios like self-driving cars and cancer diagnosis instantly get our attention, more common areas such as IT operations and DevOps are also impacted by AI. One of the core aspects of DevOps is monitoring and logging. It is common for IT administrators and system operations managers to collect and aggregate logs in a central location. Typically, these logs are used for audit trail, and to perform root cause analysis and remediation.

If you work in a corporation where your job involves sitting in front of a keyboard all day, you probably have your own version of an "IT Helpdesk" that most likely drives you absolutely nuts. IT Helpdesk is your resource for rectifying any computer related issues you might have because the "local IT support" team was canned during the last cost savings initiative "strategic realignment". If you log a ticket with IT Helpdesk like you're supposed to, you'll hear from them no sooner than 48 hours, so you pick up the phone and call them: We've all been there, and the only solace we have is that John in Mumbai's job is not going to be around for too much longer. You see, pretty soon computers are going to fix themselves. Recently Google's Deepmind had a scenario where AI Agent John was talking to AI Agent Sally.

What do Google driverless cars and Stanford University autonomous helicopters have in common? Both rely on machine learning technology to make sense of complex environments, while ensuring good decisions are made sooner. Machine learning's ability to make good decisions faster in complex environments also can be applied to solve challenges in IT operations. In today's dynamic IT environments driven by virtualization, mobility, and cloud, application and infrastructure issues are popping up constantly. When an issue affecting service unfolds, there can be multiple underlying root causes that are simultaneously cascading across technology domains – apps, servers, storage, networks and, increasingly, private to public cloud hybrids.