30 Ways How AI Will Change Your Business

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Artificial intelligence has the power to change our society dramatically. Within the coming years, it is likely that AI is taking over many of the jobs currently done by humans. Not only repetitive work can be taken over by AI, but also more difficult jobs such as customer service representative, journalist, chef, driver or team leader. It seems that many of the functions of existing organisations can be taken over by artificial intelligence, thereby of course also creating many, yet unforeseen, jobs. As a result, organisations will look completely different in the future. Here are 30 ways how AI will change your business.

Three Useful Nuggets of Information

My weekly tips from around the web to get you thinking.

1. Is the ICO bubble about to burst?

In the past days, many of the 1900 cryptocurrencies have seen dramatic losses, and since the start of the year, the total value of the market has decreased from >800 billion to $200 billion. The price of ETH is currently at $282, but Ethereum’s drop in price is splitting the crypto community. (TechCrunch)

2. World Bank launches first Blockchain Bond.

While the crypto market fell, the World Bank launched its first Blockchain Bond. They have mandated the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) as the sole arranger of the first bond globally to be created, allocated, transferred and managed through its lifecycle using distributed ledger technology. (Reuters)

3. Looking for some nice poetry, you can turn to AI now.

Microsoft has developed a chatbot that can create poetry by looking at a photograph. By taking inspiration from the real world, the chatbot XiaoIce has generated 12 million poems during conversations with people. (Quartz)