7 PREDICTIONS ON THE FUTURE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND MACHINE LEARNING

2. Generate new services (and possible social issues)
Martin Ford, author of NY Times, says that Artificial Intelligence will improve our ability of solving problems and generate new ideas. It is likely that in the following ten years AI and robotics will be completely integrated in the business operations and will have a great impact on organizations’ efficiency: new products and service based on AI will be created, as well as new markets and customers. At the same time, Artificial Intelligence may eliminate certain jobs, which will become automated, and may create critical situations in terms of privacy, security and military applications. According to Ford, in ten years the debate about possible issues deriving from the application of AI will be central both at political and social levels.

3. Empower businesses
Matthew Kamen, VSP of Engineering at Foursquare, thinks that the applications of AI are “stuck” at this moment, and they are limited to reproduce what human beings already can do, or what humans trust to let them do. In ten years these trust barriers against the AI technology will decrease progressively and our addiction to algorithms and intelligent machines will grow. Kamen believes that AI technologies will bring a great change in enterprises and in the development of consumer-based applications, by giving to analysts, developers, marketers and many more professionals the chance to interact and understand users much better.

4. Improve healthcare
In the healthcare field, according to Serkan Kutan – CTO of Zocdoc, intelligent machines would be very useful. Many doctors work too much, they can’t see all their patients and can’t keep up-to-date with the new studies and advancements for lack of time. For that, AI could give a great help, especially for all what is related to patients data analysis and diagnostics. Indeed, machines would have a faster and immediate access to a larger set of clinical data and the doctor, by delegating that part of work, will have more time to interact with his patients and improve outcomes.

5. Facilitate sustainability
Nikita Johnson, Founder of RE.WORK, declares that Artificial Intelligence will have a serious impact on every single industrial field and everything we do. But at a higher level, fields like sustainability, environmental problems and climate changes, AI and Machine Learning would be at the forefront. There are many areas in which the machines could help a lot and create improvements, especially if we talk about the great challenges of our century like urbanization, population increases and energy. So, Artificial Intelligence will be used not only to increase business productivity but also for higher and more significant purposes.