Brian Bergstein, in the article “This is why AI has yet to Reshape Most Businesses” in MIT Technology Review, comes to the conclusion that most companies don’t have the time or resources for enacting AI programs.
AI is expensive, and unless managers can see a real need for it, it will remain a technology used only by the most profitable and data driven industries.
But that doesn’t mean that you should be complacent about other autonomous technologies. Achim Daub, a perfume executive says, “no one really has time to do greenfield learning on the side.” He was speaking about AI development, but I couldn’t disagree more. It is precisely ‘greenfield’ exploratory learning from which your company’s biggest transformation will arise.
If your VP of Sales was able to compile reports in seconds rather than days, would that transform your business? Of course it would. Robotic Process Automation is a relatively new technology that most managers haven’t had time to learn about. Set your business’ managers free to learn what RPAs, robotics and machine learning could do for your company. Let ATC be their guide.