How to compete with robots in the age of artificial intelligence

AI's strongest applications are data-hungry. Pioneers in the field, such as Facebook, Google, and Uber, have each secured a "privileged zone" by gaining access to current and future data, the raw material of AI, from their users and others in ways that go far beyond traditional data harvesting. Their scale gives them the ability to run more training data through their algorithms and thus improve performance. In the race to leverage fully functional self-driving cars, for example, Uber has the advantage of collecting 100 million miles of fleet data daily from its drivers. This data will eventually inform the company's mobility services.