It’s undeniable that artificial intelligence (AI) will have a prolific impact on every aspect of our life in the coming years – from industry to offices and even within the home. While there are a number of people, both consumers and business leaders alike, who are sceptical about how AI will impact our lives, the benefits this technology will ultimately bring to human productivity and overall efficiency shouldn’t be overlooked. The questions we should be asking are ‘how can we harness AI to improve efficiency?’ and ‘what do we want our future workplaces to look like?’.
Artificial intelligence is rooted in building ‘learning systems’. Modelled on the neural patterns found in the human brain that enable us to learn continuously, AI is designed to learn and change its behaviour based on the environmental data its analyses over time.
The sophistication we see in today’s AI systems is like nothing we have ever seen before; thanks to significantly improved processing capabilities, which are faster and more distributed than previously, and the large amounts of memory we now have access to in the cloud.