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How Spotify Uses AI to Sound Out New Efficiencies
Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the way we work across industries. From back-office finance departments to front-facing customer support, AI's power lies in its ability to discover and introduce efficiencies. In unison with human experts, its potential knows no bounds. This is exactly where Sidney Madison Prescott, global head of intelligent automation at Spotify, and her team of engineers and solution architects come in. In our TELUS International Studios interview with Prescott, she explains how her team seeks out Spotify's most mundane, repetitive tasks with the express purpose of establishing new efficiencies.
Gartner Finds 33% of Technology Providers Plan to Invest $1 Million or More in AI Within Two Years
The survey also highlights the relative immaturity of AI technologies compared to the other innovation areas. Just over half of respondents report significant target customer adoption of their AI-enabled products and services. Forty-one percent of respondents cited AI emerging technologies as still being in development or early adoption stages, meaning there is a wave of potential adoption as new or augmented AI products and services enter general availability.
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Check out this new guide on how AI can support your journalism
The concept of artificial intelligence (AI) gets thrown around a lot but it often means different things to different people. For newsrooms, the most useful definition could go something like "things that a computer does that normally require a human journalist." We use AI every day. If you ever tried to google something, searched your inbox to find an old email or used the autocorrect feature in your text editor, all these tasks are powered by algorithms to save you the manual work. But when it comes to taking this one step further and using technology to perform some of the journalistic tasks, many newsrooms adopt the stress response: flight, fight or freeze.