Despite all of the overhyped media attention artificial intelligence (AI) receives today, it’s still the leading driving force behind productivity innovations and economic growth. Along the same vein of Moore’s Law for exponential progress, AI has made huge strides in recent years with machine-learning algorithms becoming more sophisticated and the access to massive amounts of data available to train them.

It’s no surprise that businesses are increasingly using AI to automate processes to gain efficiencies, be more competitive and avoid disruption in their markets. According to a recent Accenture survey, 82 percent of executives say their organizations are increasingly using data to drive critical and automated decision-making, at unprecedented scale.