Using Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing to Boost Productivity

There's been a huge amount of focus on the improvements artificial intelligence can make to individual consumers, Dave Damer, CEO and Founder of Testfire Labs, explores the strategic productivity gains that could be recognized by SMEs, corporates, and other organizations. Spend any time reading about artificial intelligence (AI), and you might think all the innovation is in the consumer space. While there's plenty of exciting development -- the growing skills of Alexa, the natural language processing (NLP) of Google Assistant, or the ubiquity of Siri, that's only a fraction of what AI and NLP can do. There's another, seemingly intractable problem where AI and NLP could be revolutionary -- business productivity, specifically the area that gets a big collective eye roll from employees -- meetings. The idea of most meetings is to draw people together, discuss ideas and options, create a consensus, and develop actions to achieve business tasks. That's the ideal, the reality is a little different: This is compounded as workforces become more culturally and geographically diverse.