The Future of Productivity: AI and Machine Learning

I wanted to know what the future of artificial intelligence in project management would look like, so I reached out to founders, productivity experts and futurists who work in this space every day to ask what their predictions are for the next five and 10 years. We need to think of productivity systems as supporting systems for our decision process." Related: Rethinking Chatbots: They're Not Just for Customers Mark Mader, CEO at Smartsheet, thinks that thinking of AI as roving robots is missing the point, saying, "Looking further out, there's no doubt that automation -- don't think robots, think removing mundane and unproductive work steps from your day -- will increase. As a form of decision support, productivity expert Carl Pullein thinks that "machine learning and artificial intelligence [will move] towards creating productivity tools that can schedule your meetings and tasks for you and to be able to know what needs to be done based on your context, where you are and what needs to be done."