Enterprise AI For Dummies

Chapter 26

Ten Ways AI Will Influence the Next Decade

IN THIS CHAPTER

Looking at the future of bias, ethics, and data privacy in AI

Imagining what’s next for smart cities, intelligent ops, and text mining

Exploring all the places AI R&D will go

This book is devoted to exploring the ways that AI can help you achieve your goals right now. But innovation never sleeps. New breakthroughs in AI and supporting technologies show up in the headlines every day — if you’re reading the right publications, that is. Here at the end, I’ll dust off my trusty crystal ball and indulge in a little prognostication.

But first, let’s get the burning question out of the way. Flying cars? No. Or, at least not ones that look like those in Back to the Future. Autonomous cars? They’re already here. Now, on to real stuff.

Consider this timeline:

• In the late eighteenth century, the steam engine powered the first industrial revolution.
• One hundred and twenty years later, at the turn of the twentieth century, commercially available electricity sparked the second industrial revolution.
• Sixty years after that, the first silicon-based computer triggered the third industrial revolution.
• Thirty years later in 1991, ...