While Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been known as a
scientific discipline since the 1950s, companies have only begun to
use it significantly in internal processes and their products
during the last 10 years. This is because the necessary computing
power and mass data storage have only been available at
economically reasonable costs for a few years. Prominent examples
are the supercomputers Watson (IBM) and AlphaGo Master
(DeepMind/Alphabet) that can win Jeopardy, beat chess grandmasters
and play the highly complex game of Go better than any human
being.
AI has also found its way into many commercial products, like
(self-driving) cars, marketing optimization, translation software,
chatbots, predictive maintenance and medical diagnosis. It even
supports lawyers in due diligence tasks, research and analytics of
case law and prior art, as well as contract automation (drafting,
negotiation, and archiving). Deloitte's recent study suggests that
ninety percent of
