The twin dis­ci­plines of machine learn­ing (ML) and arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence (AI) have pro­gressed through their some­what clunky ado­les­cence to now become real con­trib­u­tors with­in today’s IT sys­tems. After a peri­od of ini­tial con­cep­tu­al­iza­tion in the 1960s, arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence spent most of the 1980s and 1990s hang­ing out in Hol­ly­wood movies and TV shows, pro­vid­ing a means for cars to talk and for clunky, yet fierce robots to threat­en humankind. Today, they’re so much a part of how we do busi­ness, SAP intro­duced SAP Leonar­do to help lever­age these intel­li­gent tech­nolo­gies as well as dri­ve inno­va­tion with­in an organization.

SAP Leonar­do makes it pos­si­ble to unlock the intel­li­gent enter­prise and use ML and AI as tools with­in a company’s busi­ness­es process­es across the board. 

At Home with Arti­fi­cial Intelligence

Although both terms tend to appear togeth­er, arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence is the high-lev­el con­cept of build­ing machines that can repli­cate human­like activ­i­ties. Machine learn­ing is the process of giv­ing machines data so that they can learn for them­selves. The post-mil­len­ni­al years have seen both arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence (and the machine learn­ing that dri­ves it) progress to a more-devel­oped effi­cien­cy that is now mak­ing our soft­ware more pre­dic­tive, hol­sitic, and useful.