Artificial Intelligence in action - The Mail & Guardian

AI has the potential to deliver real value in business, creating unprecedented efficiencies across countless processes. But is South Africa's industry ready? In the 1964 children's novel by British author Roald Dahl Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Charlie's dad, Mr Bucket, loses his job when the factory where he works is mechanised. Once responsible for screwing the lids onto tubes of toothpaste, he gets laid off because a robot is able to perform his job more cheaply and efficiently. This trope of man being replaced by machine often comes up in discussions about artificial intelligence (AI) and its potential impact on our world and workforce.