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Themarketforartificialintelligence(AI)
technologiesisflourishing.Beyondthehype
andtheheightenedmediaattention,the
numerousstartupsandtheinternetgiants
racingtoacquirethem,thereisasignificant
increaseininvestmentandadoptionby
enterprises.ANarrativeSciencesurvey
foundlastyearthat38%ofenterprisesare
alreadyusingAI,growingto62%by2018.
ForresterResearchpredictedagreaterthan
300%increaseininvestmentinartificial
intelligencein2017comparedwith2016.
IDCestimatedthattheAImarketwillgrow
from$8billionin2016tomorethan$47
billionin2020.

Coinedin1955todescribeanewcomputer
sciencesubdiscipline,Artificial
Intelligencetodayincludesavarietyof
technologiesandtools,sometimetested,
othersrelativelynew.Tohelpmakesenseof
whatshotandwhatsnot,Forresterjust
publishedaTechRadarreportonArtificial
Intelligence(forapplicationdevelopment
professionals),adetailedanalysisof13
technologiesenterprisesshouldconsider

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adoptingtosupporthumandecision

making.
BasedonForrestersanalysis,heresmylist
ofthe10hottestAItechnologies:

1. NaturalLanguageGeneration:
Producingtextfromcomputerdata.
Currentlyusedincustomerservice,
reportgeneration,andsummarizing
businessintelligenceinsights.Sample
vendors:Attivio,AutomatedInsights,
CambridgeSemantics,Digital
Reasoning,Lucidworks,Narrative
Science,SAS,Yseop.

2. SpeechRecognition:Transcribeand
transformhumanspeechintoformat
usefulforcomputerapplications.
Currentlyusedininteractivevoice
responsesystemsandmobile
applications.Samplevendors:NICE,
NuanceCommunications,OpenText,
VerintSystems.

3. VirtualAgents:Thecurrentdarling
ofthemedia,saysForrester(Ibelieve
theyrefertomyevolvingrelationships
withAlexa),fromsimplechatbotsto
advancedsystemsthatcannetworkwith
humans.Currentlyusedincustomer
serviceandsupportandasasmart
homemanager.Samplevendors:
Amazon,Apple,ArtificialSolutions,
AssistAI,CreativeVirtual,Google,IBM,
IPsoft,Microsoft,Satisfi.

4. MachineLearningPlatforms:
Providingalgorithms,APIs,
developmentandtrainingtoolkits,data,
aswellascomputingpowertodesign,
train,anddeploymodelsinto
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applications,processes,andother

machines.Currentlyusedinawide
rangeofenterpriseapplications,mostly
`involvingpredictionorclassification.
Samplevendors:Amazon,Fractal
Analytics,Google,H2O.ai,Microsoft,
SAS,Skytree.

5. AIoptimizedHardware:Graphics
processingunits(GPU)andappliances
specificallydesignedandarchitectedto
efficientlyrunAIoriented
computationaljobs.Currentlyprimarily
makingadifferenceindeeplearning
applications.Samplevendors:Alluviate,
Cray,Google,IBM,Intel,Nvidia.

6. DecisionManagement:Enginesthat
insertrulesandlogicintoAIsystems
andusedforinitialsetup/trainingand
ongoingmaintenanceandtuning.A
maturetechnology,itisusedinawide
varietyofenterpriseapplications,
assistinginorperformingautomated
decisionmaking.Samplevendors:
AdvancedSystemsConcepts,
Informatica,Maana,Pegasystems,
UiPath.

7. DeepLearningPlatforms:Aspecial
typeofmachinelearningconsistingof
artificialneuralnetworkswithmultiple
abstractionlayers.Currentlyprimarily
usedinpatternrecognitionand
classificationapplicationssupportedby
verylargedatasets.Samplevendors:
DeepInstinct,ErsatzLabs,FluidAI,
MathWorks,Peltarion,Saffron
Technology,SentientTechnologies.

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8. Biometrics:Enablemorenatural

interactionsbetweenhumansand
machines,includingbutnotlimitedto
imageandtouchrecognition,speech,
andbodylanguage.Currentlyused
primarilyinmarketresearch.Sample
vendors:3VR,Affectiva,Agnitio,
FaceFirst,Sensory,Synqera,Tahzoo.

9. RoboticProcessAutomation:Using
scriptsandothermethodstoautomate
humanactiontosupportefficient
businessprocesses.Currentlyused
whereitstooexpensiveorinefficient
forhumanstoexecuteataskora
process.Samplevendors:Advanced
SystemsConcepts,Automation
Anywhere,BluePrism,UiPath,
WorkFusion.

10. TextAnalyticsandNLP:Natural
languageprocessing(NLP)usesand
supportstextanalyticsbyfacilitatingthe
understandingofsentencestructureand
meaning,sentiment,andintentthrough
statisticalandmachinelearning
methods.Currentlyusedinfraud
detectionandsecurity,awiderangeof
automatedassistants,andapplications
forminingunstructureddata.Sample
vendors:BasisTechnology,Coveo,
ExpertSystem,Indico,Knime,
Lexalytics,Linguamatics,Mindbreeze,
Sinequa,Stratifyd,Synapsify.

Therearecertainlymanybusinessbenefits
gainedfromAItechnologiestoday,but
accordingtoasurveyForresterconducted
lastyear,therearealsoobstaclestoAI
adoptionasexpressedbycompanieswithno
plansofinvestinginAI:
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Thereisnodefinedbusiness

case42%
NotclearwhatAIcanbeused
for39%

Donthavetherequired
skills33%

Needfirsttoinvestinmodernizingdatamgt
platform29%

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