{"id":7400,"date":"2017-05-31T07:00:55","date_gmt":"2017-05-31T15:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/?p=7400"},"modified":"2017-04-19T08:13:26","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T16:13:26","slug":"artificial-intelligence-businesses-that-dont-invest-in-ai-risk-being-left-behind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/artificial-intelligence-businesses-that-dont-invest-in-ai-risk-being-left-behind\/","title":{"rendered":"Artificial Intelligence: Businesses that Don&#8217;t Invest in AI Risk Being Left Behind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>84 percent of businesses say that they are already using artificial intelligence and 62 percent said that investment in AI is crucial to remain competitive by 2020. \u00a0But digging deeper, <a href=\"http:\/\/sites.tcs.com\/artificial-intelligence\/wp-content\/uploads\/TCS-GTS-how-AI-elevating-performance-global-companies.pdf\">a report by Tata Consultancy Services<\/a>. found that there are really very few companies making big investments in AI. \u00a0The average investment in AI was one-third of one percent of total revenues.<\/p>\n<p>The Tata report found that\u00a0there will likely become a\u00a0&#8220;competitive imbalance&#8221; among businesses, those who have invested in AI and those who haven&#8217;t. &#8220;Conservative spending may come to haunt the majority; the companies with the greatest revenue and cost improvements in 2015 from their AI initiatives outspent those with the smallest improvements by a factor of five.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>How will AI help businesses, at least initially? \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.accenture.com\/us-en\/people-john-cusano\">John Cusano<\/a>, global head of Accenture\u2019s insurance practice,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.insurancejournal.com\/news\/national\/2017\/04\/19\/448326.htm\"> said that<\/a> &#8220;there\u2019s an opportunity to add AI to the back-end transaction systems. 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