Natural language processing (NLP) has been at the forefront of AI adoption Limited AI expertise or knowledge is the top barrier to AI adoption International Business Machines Inc. (NYSE: IBM) just released the results of its annual survey in a report titled Global AI Adoption Index 2021 that revealed how the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Major findings Amongst the major findings of the report, the survey revealed that 43% of the companies are accelerating investments in AI coming out of the pandemic. And 90% of those companies are deploying resources to figure out how they are going to manage data across multiple cloud environments.