As recently as a few years ago, the artificial intelligence industry was a backwater. There were few players in the game, making it feel as if artificial intelligence (AI) was contained -- limited to autonomous car prototypes that only operated on closed tracks and inside Watson, the IBM program that beat trivia champion Ken Jennings in Jeopardy. According to the World Economic Forum, artificial intelligence is ushering in the “Fourth Industrial Revolution” -- the first major workplace transformation to focus on streamlining intellectual labor in addition to manual labor. Now, the focus is less on how humans complete mundane tasks faster and more on completely freeing humans from performing manual or process-oriented tasks. On the other hand, autonomous AIs are playing an even larger role by taking on the implementation part of that scenario.

Source: Forbes June 04, 2018 12:22 UTC