{"id":4890,"date":"2020-10-28T08:04:09","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T12:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nexela.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=4890"},"modified":"2023-03-20T15:29:04","modified_gmt":"2023-03-20T19:29:04","slug":"practical-uses-for-ai-in-businesses-of-any-size","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nexela.com\/?p=4890","title":{"rendered":"Practical Uses for AI in Businesses of Any Size"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Technology is getting smarter, from the consumer level on up. As such, artificial intelligence is appearing in more and more applications that all businesses can embrace. Let\u2019s take a few minutes and go over the various ways that artificial intelligence can be used to support your business\u2019 operations.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>Defining Artificial Intelligence<\/h2>\n<p>While the term sounds super advanced\u2014and a little intimidating, if we\u2019re being honest\u2014all artificial intelligence really describes is a computing system that has been taught to perform or automate tasks. There are two varieties of AI, usually classified between:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Narrow AI<\/strong>, or AI that is limited to performing or learning specific tasks. This variety includes the virtual assistants that are appearing in smart devices, the technology that powers self-driving cars, and other such applications.<\/li>\n<li><strong>General AI<\/strong>, or AI that can adapt and learn how to perform a variety of different tasks, much like the human brain can. This is the variety that we commonly see in popular culture and science fiction.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Today, businesses can implement AI to accomplish a variety of goals and tasks.<\/p>\n<h2>How Businesses Use AI Today<\/h2>\n<p>Overall, businesses today use AI functionality to accomplish any of three objectives: business process automation, data analytics, and engagement with customers and employees alike. Let\u2019s go into how these objectives are benefitted by AI.<\/p>\n<h3>Process Automation<\/h3>\n<p>This variety of automation primarily focuses on a business\u2019 behind-the-scenes activities, like keeping records updated and otherwise saving a human being\u2019s time. As the least expensive to implement and quickest to deliver a return on investment to the business that adopts it, business process automation has helped many industries complete their rote processes.<\/p>\n<h3>Data Analytics<\/h3>\n<p>This form of automation is tasked with processing the massive amounts of data that today\u2019s businesses possess, identifying patterns that would otherwise be far too time-consuming to track. From predicting consumer activity to auditing business exchanges, this form of automation gives many businesses capabilities that simply couldn\u2019t be attained with human insights alone.<\/p>\n<h3>Engagement<\/h3>\n<p>Finally, automation has also proven handy as a means of communicating with clients, customers, and employees alike. Whether you\u2019re referring to the customer service tools that appear on many modern websites that help walk someone through their issue or the treatment recommendation systems that some medical providers use to customize an individual\u2019s healthcare strategy, these systems effectively provide a smarter way to get information to the person who \\\\wants and needs to see it.<\/p>\n<p>While all this sounds intensely complicated and difficult to implement, it doesn\u2019t have to be. The team at Nexela can assist you with these kinds of improvements as well as a litany of other IT needs. To find out what we can do for you specifically, give us a call at (215) 525-3223 today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technology is getting smarter, from the consumer level on up. As such, artificial intelligence is appearing in more and more applications that all businesses can embrace. Let\u2019s take a few minutes and go over the various ways that artificial intelligence can be used to support your business\u2019 operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4894,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[91,100,85],"class_list":["post-4890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-productivity","tag-small-business","tag-workplace-tips"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Practical Uses for AI in Businesses of Any Size | Philadelphia, PA | Nexela<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"While artificial intelligence may still be seen as a large business luxury, there are a lot of ways that a small business can use it. 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