Artificial intelligence: the shape of things to come » Banking Technology

Many financial services industry firms are examining the potential of distributed ledger and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. Is it too early for any meaningful deployment? Heather McKenzie, editor of Daily News at Sibos, investigates. If distributed ledger and blockchain was the flavour of the week at last year's Sibos in Geneva, this year AI looks set to take the technology hype crown. In the wider world, there is plenty of interest in AI, with some warning of a dystopian future in which machines rule the world.