AI set to transform retail industry in 2019

AI is set to have a significant impact on many industries in 2019, with retail leading the way, new research has said. Capgemini's latest findings says that businesses are no longer'hyped' about AI, their expectations are lower, but have now actually started to work on it and use it to their advantage. The result is an opportunity worth more than $300 billion, for organisations that are able to scale and expand the scope of their existing deployments (just 1 per cent out of the global 400 it polled). It also says the number of deployments has grown seven times in the period between 2016 and 2017. AI's biggest scare – that it will'steal' jobs from people, seems to be nothing more than a myth.