“The artificial intelligence software platforms market experienced steady growth in 2018, with revenue of $2.6 billion and a growth rate of 26.6%,” says David Schubmehl, research director, Cognitive/Artificial Intelligence Systems, IDC. ” IDC is seeing that in 2018 organizations have been moving from experimentation to production with the use of AI applications within their business processes. The AI software platforms market is seeing growth in providing the tools and capabilities that organizations are using to develop these applications. IDC expects to see this trend to continue, even though open source platforms and technologies are also seeing growth in this market.”
The recent surveys, studies, forecasts and other quantitative assessments of the health and progress of AI estimated the impact on productivity of human-machine collaboration, the number of jobs that could be automated in major U.S. cities, and the size of the future AI in retail and healthcare markets; and found AI optimism among the general population, algorithms outperforming (again) pathologists, and that our very limited understanding of how our brains learn may improve machine learning.
The surveys, studies, forecasts and other quantitative assessments of the health and progress of AI for this week find increased VC excitement over AI startups, low trust in AI advice by U.S. consumers and global business executives, China and Germany ahead of the US in the use of AI in healthcare while the US spends more, and the inaccuracy of facial recognition.
The surveys, studies, forecasts and other quantitative assessments of the health and progress of AI for this week reveal the state of enterprise AI adoption, workers’ attitudes towards AI, data insecurity and privacy challenges, the fortunes of AI startups, and the superior performance of AI over humans in some situations.
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