My team and I just put out a new white-paper exploring, How Artificial Intelligence Will Change the Way You Work. It’s a great primer and overview on one of the biggest trends we are seeing today. It’s pretty hard to go anywhere today and not hear about Artificial Intelligence (AI). This is clearly something that is going to impact the ways in which we work, in fact it already is. But how much of what we are hearing about today is hype vs reality? It still remains to be seen but the general consensus is that the impact will be profound. Imagine a world without menial tasks or repetitive queries where employees are free to focus on big-picture goals and companies can grow faster and more efficiently. This is the promise of AI.

Essentially, artificial intelligence is about creating smart machines and software that work and react like humans. The technology is likely much more varied and sophisticated than what you may have seen in science fiction movies. AI is being developed today that works on everything from speech recognition to analytics, problem solving, and beyond. AI can take on many different forms, from customer service robots to Internet-of-Things connected smart machines, and could look like anything from data processing machines to virtual assistants and sensor-based manufacturing components. And across all industries, it seems like AI is revolutionizing how people work.

The idea of AI is far from now, it was first written about by Alan Turing in 1950, when he posed the question, “Can machines think?” The idea was particularly forward-thinking considering that the first general-purpose computer had just been created. AI has been in the works for decades, but it has only been recently that the technology has been in place to make theoretical dreams a reality. The two biggest developments to bring AI to the forefront were big data and computing power; AI relies on vast amounts of data to truly be an effective intelligent system, but up until recently that data wasn’t available and computers couldn’t have handled it if it was.

So what is it that we need to know about how AI will impact the ways in which we work? I put together a white-paper which explores this very topic. It provides an overview of AI, explores the opportunities and benefits (things like personalization and productivity), outlines the challenges (things like privacy and regulation), and takes a look at what we need to do to prepare for the future. Of course, the white-paper also has plenty of examples and stories to help illustrate the key points.

I hope you find it valuable, you can download the new whitepaper here.

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