AI bots: How GE is adapting traditional management to AI

GE is experimenting with using bots as a way to more effectively implement its AI strategy. Deploying AI capabilities via bots, in essence, allows the company to apply traditional practices used for managing its human workforce to technology. These include practices like onboarding, training, rating and creating a culture around the AI bots. The company has even taken to naming the bots, said Vivek Thakral, director of artificial intelligence at GE. About 50 different bots, with names like Greg, Olive and Max, have been created by Thakral's team to do particular tasks that existing workers are having trouble keeping up with.