Over the last few years, AI and machine learning technologies have been rapidly adopted by software vendors across all fields, from IT to analytics to data management. Oracle, one of the world's largest vendors in the enterprise IT space, is no exception. Last year, the vendor increased its AI tools with a major expansion to Oracle Adaptive Intelligent Apps, which sought to bring AI and machine learning capabilities to HR, finance, e-commerce and sales applications, among others. By bringing AI to its various platform offerings and to the cloud, the Oracle adaptive intelligence software looks to deliver machine learning capabilities that are ready to go and easy to use across a variety of domains -- even though the vendor is playing catch-up in some regards with the technology, which it refers to more informally as Oracle AI Apps. The interview was conducted at The AI Summit in San Francisco, where Oracle representatives presented a keynote.