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Afraid a digital world means less human intelligence? Don’t be
Last year’s highly publicised Artificial Intelligence (AI) debate, between tech giants Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and more recently, Bill Gates brought to the fore some questions at the back of everyone’s minds: how sustainable is humanity with AI ever encroaching?…
Are robots stealing our jobs?
We’ve seen it in the Industrial Revolution, where machines replaced countless jobs almost overnight. The socio-economic effects of that transformation have been well documented. Today, many believe we are facing the same tidal wave of change. The major difference now…
The rise of robots brings benefits for businesses but also creates liability
Chatbots, autonomous vehicles, and connected machines in digital factories foreshadow what the future will look like: The widespread implementation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications brings many advantages for businesses such as increased efficiencies, fewer repetitive tasks and better customer experiences.…
Sharpening African manufacturers’ competitive edge with technology
African countries from South Africa to Ethiopia to Nigeria are pinning some of their hope for economic growth and job creation on industrialisation. With its young population, dynamic growth and rapidly improving infrastructure, sub-Saharan Africa has the potential to become…
From the frontier: Predictions for how tech will shape the world in 2018
A lot can happen in a year. And when that year is 2018, a year in which we stand on the threshold of an exponential future driven by technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data, IoT and blockchain, the world…
Chatbots – A ‘quick win’ in improving government service delivery
As our government looks towards new technologies to enhance services to South Africa’s 55 million citizens and residents, Chatbots appear as a valuable tool, with the potential to transform the way people engage with government departments. Chatbots combine the ease…
How small businesses can use emerging technologies to cut down admin
In addition to giving businesses time and money back, think about what an injection of productivity could do for the African economy; better pay packets for everyone, more tax revenues for social spending, and perhaps most importantly, an improved work/life…
The future of coaching in a world of Artificial Intelligence
Every year, the breakthroughs in Artificial Intelligence (AI), the intelligence displayed by machines, become more and more astounding. The list of what intelligent machines can now do better than humans grows. From driving cars more safely to making more accurate…
Artificial Intelligence drives disruption in the analytics space
Advancements in analytics technologies and convergence of technologies have led to transformational breakthroughs in the business landscape, enabling companies to gain a competitive advantage and create new ways of generating revenues. The availability of ever-increasing amounts of structured and unstructured…
The role of cutting-edge technologies in South Africa
The theft of billions of rand stolen from South African taxpayers, could have been prevented if there had been an effective artificial intelligence (AI) system in place to track suspicious spending patterns in state disbursements. Dr Duncan Coulter, Deputy Head…
How artificial intelligence will impact the South African workforce
Last year, research by Accenture and the Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) posited that artificial intelligence (AI) had the potential to double the growth rate of the South African economy and boost rates of profitability by an average of…
Five reasons why Artificial Intelligence needs Women
Over the course of the last few years, Artificial intelligence (AI) has become recognised as one of the keys to solving some of the world’s most complex issues – unlocking a level of growth and innovation that has never been…
Machine-to-human skills transfer: bridging the South African talent divide with AI
South Africa is open to business and looking to reignite its struggling economy under the rule of newly-appointed President Cyril Ramaphosa. However, without urgent action on South Africa’s growing skills deficit, all dreams of a booming economy with low unemployment…
Artificial Intelligence: Your bot will see you now
Next time you contact your insurer there is a good chance that you will be dealing with Artificial Intelligence (AI). Insurers are starting to use intelligent computers to give advice and speed up the process of buying insurance and paying…
Expect even more mind-blowing tech developments in 2018
It used to take months to be able to say whether a particular treatment for cancer was working – wasting precious time which might otherwise have been used to save a patient’s life. Now using analytics, we can predict that…
40 percent of CIOs are planning to deploy Artificial Intelligence says Gartner
Meaningful artificial intelligence (AI) deployments are just beginning to take place, according to Gartner, Inc. Gartner’s 2018 CIO Agenda Survey shows that four percent of CIOs have implemented AI, while a further 46 percent have developed plans to do so.…
