Machine learning is not science fiction. It is already widely used by businesses across all sectors to drive innovation and improve process efficiency. In 2021, 41% of companies accelerated their AI adoption due to the pandemic. These newcomers join the 31% of companies that are already using AI in production or actively testing AI technologies.
Data Security : Machine learning models can identify data security vulnerabilities before they become breaches. By analyzing past experiences, machine learning models can predict future high-risk actions so that risk can be mitigated early.
Finance : Banks, trading brokers, and fintech firms are using machine learning algorithms to automate trading and provide financial advisory services to investors. Bank of America uses the Erica chatbot to automate customer support.
Healthcare : Machine learning is used to analyze massive sets of medical data to speed up the discovery of treatments and cures, improve patient outcomes, and automate routine processes to prevent human error. For example, IBM Watson uses data mining to provide doctors with data that they can use to personalize patient care.

Fraud detection : AI is being used in the financial and banking sector to autonomously analyze large numbers of transactions to identify fraudulent activity in real time. Technology services company Capgemini claims that fraud detection systems using machine learning and analytics reduce fraud investigation time by 70% and improve detection accuracy by 90%.
Retail : AI researchers and developers use machine learning algorithms to develop AI recommendation engines that offer relevant product suggestions based on past customer choices, as well as historical, geographic, and demographic data.
Why is machine learning important?
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