Artificial Intelligence Update—Gaining Ground across Many Sectors

Abstract

The following article tracks the leading trends in Artificial Intelligence (“AI”), focusing specifically on companies in the Financial Services, Healthcare and Business Services arenas. Wide-ranging exploration in the space charted the many breakthroughs and triumphs in developing AI and the roadblocks in commercializing the technology in areas such as self-driving, machine-diagnosing and the future of autonomous decisions. A clear consensus on the future of AI is automation, particularly where traditional systems are reaching natural limits. For example, in Healthcare, hospice has experienced very little innovation. However, the aging population is taxing the hospice system with a heavy burden falling on otherwise productive family members. How can AI add capacity or improve the effectiveness of hospice? It seems inevitable that AI will play a role by progressing quality in the future of our lives.

TOPICS: Private equity, big data/machine learning, portfolio construction, performance measurement