Role of Artificial Intelligence

AI is at the forefront of a new era of computing, Cognitive Computing. It's a radically new kind of computing very different from the programmable systems that preceded it. As different as those systems were from the tabulating machines of a century ago, conventional computing solutions based on mathematical principles that emanate from the 1940s are programmed based on rules and logic intended to derive mathematically precise answers, often following a rigid decision tree approach. But with today's wealth of big data and the need for more complex evidence-based decisions such a rigid approach often breaks or fails to keep up with available information.