Before we look into benefits AI offers to business, let's look at what AI really is. Despite the rumours spread mainly by sci-fi films, AI cannot completely replace humans, but can make our lives and the ways we do business much easier, allowing us to find better solutions and supporting us in our discoveries. Currently, the global AI market is valued at over $136 billion and is expected to increase by over 13x in the next eight years, reaching an incredible number of $1.81 trillion by 2030. That alone speaks of the importance of Artificial Intelligence and its incredible potential. The statistics are impressive, but how do businesses actually use Artificial Intelligence?

Artificial intelligence software is software that uses AI technology and special algorithms to automate different tasks. Companies save time and effort by automating their business processes and enabling their employees to work more productively. A variety of AI software tools are used to make the business process much simpler and more effective. For example, software that recommends products to users in an e-commerce shop, chatbots, software that automates content marketing creation, tools that predict sales, etc. AI is widely used in product recommendation systems. These are systems that suggest products or information to users based on special data analysis methods.

A world built from accessible assets that drive human convenience and interaction. This is the future that's powered by the Internet of Things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI), two of the planet's hottest topic trends right now for a very good reason. They are also the fuel driving digital transformation in 2019. These are the technologies revolutionising performance, process and productivity. They are also transforming industry challenges across agriculture, retail, health and the public sector and are set to continue on this path well into 2019.

When you consider all the amazing things artificial intelligence can be used for, making beer probably isn't one of them. Unless I'm misunderstanding something, I thought the whole point of beer was to let us worry less about intelligence. But while many of the things artificial intelligence can be used for are far more boring than beer – I can only watch people lose to a robot at Jeopardy so many times – so maybe IntelligentX is actually on to something: The company has claimed to produce the world's first AI brewed beer. "AI is about making decisions," said IntelligentX co-founder Dr. Rob McInerney in a promotional video, "and when you're brewing beer, there's a lot of decisions that need to be made." For the products his brand makes, those decisions are run through a complex machine learning algorithm that is able to use customer feedback to "brew new versions which are more finely tuned to people's tastes," according to the company.