How AI Is Already Changing Business

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Harvard Business Review

Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Communication, Marketing, Business, Business/management, Management, Business/marketing, Business/entrepreneurship, Innovation, Hbr, Strategy, Economics, Finance, Teams, Harvard

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🗓️ 20 July 2017

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Erik Brynjolfsson, MIT Sloan School professor, explains how rapid advances in machine learning are presenting new opportunities for businesses. He breaks down how the technology works and what it can and can’t do (yet). He also discusses the potential impact of AI on the economy, how workforces will interact with it in the future, and suggests managers start experimenting now. Brynjolfsson is the co-author, with Andrew McAfee, of the HBR Big Idea article, “The Business of Artificial Intelligence.” They’re also the co-authors of the new book, “Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future.

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0:35.0	It's a pretty sad photo when you look at it.
0:38.1	A robot just over a meter tall and shaped kind of like a pudgy rocket ship laying on its side in a shallow pool in the courtyard of a Washington
0:46.6	D.C. office building. Workers, human ones, stand around trying to figure out how to rescue it.
0:54.0	The security robot had just been on the job for a few days when the mishap occurred.
1:00.0	One entrepreneur who works in the office complex wrote,
1:03.0	we were promised flying cars.
1:05.0	Instead, we got suicidal robots.
1:08.1	For many people online, the snapshot
1:10.1	symbolized something about the autonomous future that awaits.
1:15.0	Robots are coming and computers can do all kinds of new work for us.
1:19.0	Cars can drive themselves.
1:21.0	For some people this is exciting, but there's also clearly fear out there about
1:25.6	dystopia. Tesla CEO Elon Musk calls artificial intelligence and existential threat.
1:32.0	But our guest on the show today is cautiously
1:34.1	optimistic. He's been watching how businesses are using artificial intelligence and
1:38.5	how advances in machine learning will change how we all work.
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