Tuesday, November 27, 2018

Artificial Intelligence Brings the Era of Thinking Machines


Artificial Intelligence as a Service (AIaaS) is the third party offering of artificial intelligence (AI) outsourcing. AI as a service allows individuals and companies to experiment with AI for various purposes without large initial investment and with lower risk. Experimentation can allow the sampling of multiple public cloud platforms to test different machine learning algorithms.


Different AI provider platforms offer a number of styles of machine learning and AI. These variations can be more or less suited to an organization's AI needs since organizations need to evaluate features and pricing to see what works for them. Cloud AI service providers can offer the specialized hardware needed for some AI tasks, like GPU based processing for intensive workloads. Purchasing the required hardware and software to start on-premise cloud AI is costly. Coupled with staffing and maintenance costs, as well as hardware changes for different tasks, makes AIaaS cost prohibitive to many organizations.


The Artificial Intelligence as a service industry is expected to grow at a significant rate over the next 5 years, due to the need to reduce infrastructure costs and analyze large volumes of data to formulate various growth strategies. The growing demand for AI-powered services in the form of Application Programming Interface (API) and Software Development Kit (SDK) and increasing number of innovative startups are some of the major factors that are expected to drive the AI as a service market.
Major vendors in the global AI as a service industry include International Business Machines Corporation (IBM, US), SAP SE (Germany), Google (US), Amazon Web Service, Inc (AWS, US), Salesforce (US), Intel (US), Baidu, Inc (China), Fair Isaac Corporation (FICO, US), SAS Institute (US), and BigML (US).

The objective of the study is to define, describe, and forecast the global AI as a service market on the basis of service types (software tools and services), technologies (machine learning [ML] and deep learning, and natural language processing [NLP]), organization size (large enterprises and Small and Medium-sized Enterprises [SMEs]), verticals (manufacturing, healthcare and life sciences, Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance [BFSI], retail, government and defense, energy, telecommunication), and others (education, agriculture, transportation and media and entertainment), and regions. The report also aims at providing detailed information about the major factors, such as drivers, restraints, opportunities, and challenges, influencing the growth of the Artificial Intelligence as a service market.

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