How Companies Are Already Using AI

A survey by Tata Consultancy Services reveals that while some jobs have been lost to machine intelligence, that's not the major way companies are using AI today. Companies are more likely to be using AI to improve computer-to-computer tasks while employing the same number of people. The 170-year-old news service Associated Press offers a case in point. In 2013, demand for quarterly earnings stories was insatiable, and staff reporters could barely keep up. So that year, AP began working with an AI firm to train software to automatically write short earnings news stories. By 2015, AP's AI system was writing 3,700 quarterly earnings stories – 12 times the number written by its business reporters.