AI Is Changing

Forbes predictions of AI trends to look out for in 2020 span many fields. These include:

Boring Stuff

Filling in forms, generating reports and diagrams and producing documentation and instructions are all tasks that can be automated by machines that watch what we do and learn to do it for us in a quicker and more streamlined manner.

Personalization

Dominos for example, will learn when we are most likely to want pizza, and make sure the ‘Order Now’ button is in front of us at the right time.

Improved Data

Simulations have advanced to the stage where car manufacturers and others working on the development of autonomous vehicles can gain thousands of hours of useful driving data without vehicles even leaving the lab.

More Devices

AI tools, augmented by virtual and augmented reality displays, will increasingly be embedded into our vehicles, household appliances, and workplace tools.

Moving from Cloud to Edge

Custom processors designed to carry out real-time analytics on-the-fly will increasingly become part of the technology we interact with day-to-day, and increasingly we will be able to do this even if we have patchy or non-existent internet connections.

Better Tools

Increasingly, tools will be built to support our imaginative, design, strategy, and communication skills supported by fast analytics and huge real-time datasets.

Entertainment

Enhancements in movie making have now gone beyond basic CGI. AI can allow de-aging, transformation of a person into a werewolf, etc. with far less human intervention. Similarly in gaming, CGI becomes ever-more lifelike. Even smart playlists on services like Spotify or Google Music that match tunes and tempo to the mood and pace of our everyday lives.

Security

AI can be used to spot giveaway signs in digital activity or transaction patterns that are likely to be indicators of criminal activity, and raise alarms before defences can be breached.

Chatbots

AI will become more and more able to fool us into thinking there is a human on the other end of the conversation.

Big Brother

San Francisco became the first major city to ban the use of facial recognition technology by the police and municipal agencies.

Our Thoughts

Changes in AI will affect every aspect of our lives—personal safety and security, business security, personal productivity, and entertainment.

If you’re not yet keeping track of AI, and including AI in your regular business strategy planning, it’s time to start.