Artificial Intelligence

The pair joined prominent researchers in pledging support for principles to protect mankind from machines. BY ANTHONY CUTHBERTSON, Jan 31, 2017 Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk have joined prominent artificial intelligence researchers in pledging support for principles to protect mankind from machines and a potential AI arms race.

By JURICA DUJMOVIC, Jan. 24, 2017 Look at Wipro: Human programmers are being freed from drudgery to focus on more complex work Courtesy Everett Collection Approximately 40% of the global population has access to the internet. The global economy depends on it, and millions of companies and their employees design websites, coding applications and providing…

By James Manyika, Michael Chui, Mehdi Miremadi, Jacques Bughin, Katy George, Paul Willmott, and Martin Dewhurst, Jan 2017 Automation is happening, and it will bring substantial benefits to businesses and economies worldwide, but it won’t arrive overnight. A new McKinsey Global Institute report finds realizing automation’s full potential requires people and technology to work hand…

Businessworld, Jan. 20, 2017 IF YOUR JOB involves inputting reams of data for a company, you might want to think about retraining in a more specialized field. Or as a plumber. After industrial robots and international trade put paid to many manufacturing jobs in the West, millions of white-collar workers could now be under threat…

by DAVID RYAN POLGAR, Jan 8, 2017 34 workers at a Japanese insurance company are being laid off and replaced with an artificial intelligence (AI) system. Fukoku Mutual Life Insurance, seeking greater efficiency in calculating their payouts to policyholders, will soon replace many of its office workers with an AI system based on IBM’s Watson…

by Paul Daugherty, Dec 12, 2016 Technology is a key topic at the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting 2017. Watch the session on Artificial Intelligence here. Artificial Intelligence (AI) may be the single most disruptive technology the world has seen since the Industrial Revolution. Granted, there is a lot of hype out there on AI,…

By Kevin Maney, November 30, 2016, Bloomberg Next time you stop for gas at a self-serve pump, say hello to the robot in front of you. Its life story can tell you a lot about the robot economy roaring toward us like an EF5 tornado on the prairie.

A summit on AI and business is told starter roles in many industries will be automated by machine learning systems, while other experts urge caution against such predictions. By Nick Heath, May 5, 2016, Young people will bear the brunt of AI-fuelled job losses as smart systems undercut entry-level roles in everything from marketing to…