We are using Elixir AI systems in production. Elixir/Erlang is fantastic for it. We could use more native libraries there are a 4-5 that I know of. and there is a guy that has 3 libraries on hex. we rolled our own stuff though Hoping to be able to open source the backbone of that eventually.
Only downside is the lack of libraries compared to certain other languages. But since the BEAM is awesomeness incarnated making your own stuff is fairly easy. Break everything into small enough pieces and performance issues with regards to calculations will not be hindering you at all. I could write wall to wall about how Awesome Elixir/Erlang is for AI and especially neural networks.
