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A guide to artificial intelligence in enterprise: Is it right for your business?

While true artificial intelligence is some way off, businesses are taking advantage of intelligent automation, like machine learning, to improve business operations, drive innovation and improve the customer experience. AI and automation is changing the business environment across industries, delivering new opportunities through intelligent, automated products. Some companies are ahead of the curve, and others … Read more

HPE to buy Cray, offer HPC as a service

High-performance computing offerings from HPE plus Cray could enable things like AI, ML, high-speed financial trading, creation digital twins for entire enterprise networks. HPE has agreed to buy supercomputer-maker Cray for $1.3 billion, a deal that the companies say will bring their corporate customers high-performance computing as a service to help with analytics needed for … Read more

6 tips for working with AI vendors

For most organizations, DIY artificial intelligence is out of reach. Here’s how to cut through the hype and create business value with off-the-shelf AI. Artificial intelligence and related technologies promise to be a game changer for businesses. The central question is whether to build or buy. Some companies will build their own solutions from scratch, but … Read more

The true costs and ROI of implementing AI in the enterprise

Leaders championing AI/ML initiatives need viable use cases and compelling metrics to advance their cause. Here’s how to approach cost justification, identify ROI, and avoid implementation missteps. A recent analysis of web topic popularity by web content evaluator MarketMuse revealed that 80 percent of IT and corporate business leaders want to learn more about the … Read more

Intellectual property in an AI world

The controversial European Copyright Directive has gone back to the drawing board, but it raises important questions about the use of artificial intelligence in protecting individual rights. These questions affect everyone, even if they are not in the EU. The European Parliament’s rejection of the controversial Copyright Directive has highlighted the tensions in the evolving relationship between … Read more

Expect jobs equilibrium if government sticks with AI plan

The government must fully implement its artificial intelligence (AI) sectordeal to ensure that the number of jobs created by AI and automation balance the number of jobs lost, PwC has stated in its latest report. The £1bn deal is intended to put the UK at the forefront of the AI industry. PwC’s UK Economic Outlook reported that many middle … Read more

Risky AI business: Navigating regulatory and legal dangers to come

Artificial intelligence poses a wide range of hidden and unknown dangers for enterprises deploying the technology. Here’s how to guard against the legal and compliance risks of AI. Artificial intelligence (AI) is cropping up everywhere in business, as organizations deploy the technology to gain insights into customers, markets and competitors, and to automate processes in … Read more

How AI will underpin cyber security in the next few years

Cyber security risks are growing in complexity and volume, but artificial intelligence techniques can help businesses track and fight them in real time. Cyber criminals continue to launch increasingly sophisticated and devastating attacks on industrial, business and financial organisations around the world – and the damage from such crime could reach $6tn by 2021, according … Read more

Robots are needed to manage the automation robots

The next decade will see robots transform from invisible forces obeying our commands to lifelike objects interacting with humans on a daily basis. Getting most business services requests completed should be as easy as asking HAL 9000 to open the pod bay door in the classic Stanley Kubrick film 2001: A Space Odyssey. Before HAL malfunctioned, that … Read more