AI is Coming . Is your Business is Ready

As machines continue to assume many of the tasks that once depended on human agency—such as driving a car or making a decision—we find ourselves looking toward a future in which nearly all technology applications will likely incorporate some form of artificial intelligence (AI). It has already changed the trajectory of scientific research, enabling new creative and technological milestones. At the same time, the rapid advancement of AI technologies has raised fundamental questions about social values and the potential unintended consequences of AI.
AI enables a variety of other emerging technologies as well. For example, it provides the “brain power” that allows robots to take on human-like characteristics, and it lends the analytical muscle that derives meaning from—and can act on—the flood of data generated by billions of interconnected devices in the internet of things (IoT).
There are currently two main schools of thought on how to develop the inference capabilities necessary for AI programs to navigate through the complexities of everyday life. In both, programs learn from experience—that is, the responses and reactions they get influence the way the programs act thereafter. The first approach uses conditional instructions (also known as heuristics) to accomplish this.