AI’s march could take a pause, and that may not be a bad thing
It’s getting harder to gather quality data that drives AI, but the slowdown gives us a chance to make adjustments.
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The promise of this leap in technology, whose impact said to rival and even exceed the arrival of the Internet, is thought to be limitless.
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For the past 18 months, many chief executives of major companies I have spoken with, particularly in the technology field, have been sharing their assessment that 2025 is going to be something of a watershed year, when the use of artificial intelligence (AI) will become so pervasive that it will strike societies with gale force.
As automation and robotisation sweep through factory floors, many of the white-collar office jobs that were thought to be safe from these trends could be under threat, or, at the very least, alter significantly as machines replace human beings, and humans and machines collaborate even more closely.
