1. Necessity-driven AI Innovations
Think about it like this: We can now fearlessly unlock Pandora’s box of societal and industrial problems and challenges because we also have the technological key to resolve them. In the future, we will see a continuous and rapid emergence of new ideas to solve persistent challenges.
People may have thought of these solutions for a long time, but it was out of our technical capacity to realize them. With automation, those ideas can now become a reality.
We are also going through an economic shift and fundamental changes in how we approach work.
All of a sudden, the minds of customers are wide open, looking for solutions. This fortunate alignment of causalities allows for once-in-a-generation leaps in idea formulation, especially when supported by AI’s impending heavily accelerated adoption.
2. AI will be the new flavor of a globalized workforce
In the wake of the Great Resignation and quiet quitting, it’s abundantly clear that our relationship with the workplace has shifted fundamentally. Flexibility and work-life balance are critical to retaining talent.
AI-driven automation will play a key role in enabling companies to offer enhanced flexibility to employees while allowing them to work from anywhere.
3. AI and hyper-scale automation will hit us in waves
We are already witnessing heavy adoption of automation for repetitive tasks done by software robots.
We might still be some time away from scaling hardware robots or consistent automation that can enable organizations to manage all aspects of production from hyper-scale data centers. But we will likely see an upsurge in automation that expands or enhances the ability for people to work.
We could even see an uptick in robotic personal assistants to take care of repetitive tasks that can largely be automated so people can work smarter and faster. This will be particularly true in back office environments where repetitive tasks consume many costly human hours.
As we get increasingly sophisticated with AI tools, the percentage and nature of automation in all work processes will scale significantly. Few aspects of life will remain untouched by AI, and the changes will soon hit us in waves. The tricky question for organizations will be deciding which wave to ride on.