The Rise of Artificial Intelligence provides a commercial exploration of AI, with particular emphasis on how AI-based systems can improve decision making in organizations of all shapes and sizes. Written for the modern-day business manager, this book examines Artificial Intelligence from the perspective of decision-making, because the quality of the decisions we make defines the quality of the future we create for ourselves and our organizations. In the same way that calculators have improved our ability to make better decisions—followed by spreadsheets, reporting tools, and countless other software applications—Artificial Intelligence is fast becoming the latest “calculator” to assist us, and one that happens to be particularly well-suited for the speed, noise, and complexity of the modern world ...