Are You Ready For The AI Revolution?

Chatbots, artificial intelligence (AI), and natural language user interfaces (NLUIs) are making it increasingly feasible for humans to have realistic conversations with software applications. For example, chatbot developer Kore, Inc., is working with the SAP Co-Innovation Lab to create solutions that suggest possible actions to users when a sales opportunity has changed, an order is delayed, or an expense needs approval. While these solutions are not self-aware, experts are working to create networks that emulate the way information traverses the brain. Such groundbreaking research may eventually result in AI that is able to learn, improve, and converse naturally with users. Kris Hammond, founder of the University of Chicago's AI laboratory, envisions a type of applied AI that will enable this type of seamless dialogue between humans and machines.