SingleStore commissioned a survey with O'Reilly Media to learn more about the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in the workplace. According to the survey, ML and AI are seen as the most significant data initiative for next year by 61% of respondents, regardless of company size, followed closely by big data and business analytics initiatives. The key benefits of adopting ML and AI cited by respondents include enabling more informed business decision making and transforming their job and industry. Additionally, the survey found that 74% of respondents consider ML and AI to be a game changer and 77% of those actively using ML/AI are working on creating new models. This rapid evolution suggests that data scientists and technical professionals will need intelligent databases to support advanced workloads, which is where SingleStore comes in as a database for transactions and analytics at scale with native integrations with Apache Kafka and Apache Spark.