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AI is big business and a major focus of R&D and acquisitions – especially for tech giants such as Facebook, Microsoft and Apple. AI also garners significant media coverage, whether it is for driverless car technology, worries about AI-enhanced cyber criminality, or for AI’s potential benefits to humanity – such as using AI to help the homeless. But many of these use cases are future looking or speculative and don’t necessarily offer great value to those investing in AI – either as a provider or an end user. So how will businesses and public sector organisations make money from AI in their everyday business?

One of the biggest challenges to adopting AI is knowing where to start. In theory AI can be applied to any and all aspects of an organisation’s day-to-day operations. Furthermore, even if AI enhances a particular part of a business’s operations it does not necessarily mean that the value returned will be worth the investment.