How companies are using machine learning

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Today’s leading organizations are using machine learning–based tools to automate decision processes, and they’re starting to experiment with more-advanced uses of artificial intelligence (AI) for digital transformation. Corporate investment in artificial intelligence is predicted to triple in 2017, becoming a $100 billion market by 2025. Last year alone saw $5 billion in machine learning venture investment. In a recent survey, 30% of respondents predicted that AI will be the biggest disruptor to their industry in the next five years.

Source: 8 Ways Machine Learning Is Improving Companies’ Work Processes

There is movement by companies like Facebook into enhancing learning through machine learning, but this is driven by profit as well as altruistic motivation. But will it transform education? I believe it will eventually.

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