Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning(ML) are jointly contributing to the gradual build-up of the “Intelligent Digital Mesh” so candidly described in Gartner’s Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2018.
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning have been forecasted to be the game-changers of the coming decade. Most of the tech trends discussed really fall under the umbrella field of Data Science, as they directly or indirectly affect Data Management. However, some specific innovations like Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), or Digital Twins also indicate hardware enhancements and overlapping of the physical and digital worlds.
In a blog post tiled Forrester’s Top Emerging Technologies To Watch: 2017-2021, Forrester made strong assertions about an impending disruptive technology world, where suddenly an avalanche of ground-breaking digital technologies such as mobile, social, Big Data, Cloud, IoT, Ai, and ML will all emerge and converge to turn the global businesses upside down.
In another Forrester’s post tiled The Top Technology Trends To Watch: 2016 To 2018, the author claims that Big Data and IoT have suddenly catapulted the need for Intelligent Analytics systems powered by robotic assistants and self-teaching algorithms. What this trend indicates is that the future business owners, leaders, and managers will have more time to invest on critical business issues as day-to-day Data Management tasks will be taken over by intelligent machines. The additional layer of ML-driven AI capabilities has taken the afore-mentioned technologies to the ultimate era of technological freedom, where man and machine co-habitate happily.
The transformative outcomes of such a “connected business world” are participative customer relationships, data-powered decision making, implementation of innovative risk and security strategies, and superfast technology maturity driven by global customer obsession with everything tech. The businesses, big or small should take advantage of this era of digital disruptions and empower their workforces and customers alike.
In the next five years, say by 2021, the fully automated, intelligent Data Management systems may actually end up chopping about 6 percent of US-based Data Science jobs. In 2021, we may even see a virtually connected, business ecosystem once again transforming the customer engagement platforms and methods.
Source:
http://www.dataversity.net/machine-learning-artificial-intelligence-trends-2018/
