Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning provide metadata and require metadata to work. The ideas of AI and machine learning are no longer science fiction, let alone fiction. They have become an applied practice and discipline in business. Machine learning is the ability for computer systems to “learn” with continually supplied data without any explicit programming telling the computer what to do. AI is when a computer displays the apparent cognitive ability to think, learn and problem solve in real time. This is both exciting and concerning. It forces us to realize that data is the foundation upon which these types of computer intelligence can be built.
