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.