The Marriage of Man and Machine: Why the Success of AI depends on Humans.

The marriage between man and machine is more important than ever. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming how we work, play and interact with one another. However, it is not just the technology that will shape the future of AI, it is the humans behind it. We are past the movie-portraying view of robots ‘taking our jobs’ or ‘taking over our world’ idea of artificial intelligence, and we accept that AI will play a significant role in the future. We need to embrace it, not for the sake of apathy or cost-efficiency but for the sake of innovation, growth, and evolution. More than that, it’s exciting. The technology we have is amazing, mind-blowing even, however AI is still in its infancy and there is a long way to go until it becomes truly human-like and before we can rely on it fully. For us to do that it would need to be better than a person, and it’s not there currently.

By Pete Hanlon, Group CTO, Moneypenny.