Can humans thrive in the bot economy? - Atlassian Blogs

Artificial intelligence (AI) might turn out to be the single biggest change the business world will see in our lifetime. Bots, like those little customer service chat windows that pop up on websites, as well as more futuristic-sounding things, like driverless cars, are already here. By 2020, I'll probably have a content-generating algorithm that writes all my op-eds for me while I take long walks on the beach, and they'll be as easy to read as Hemingway and emotionally evocative as Tolstoy. The thing is, we're just getting started with AI. Though it may seem like big changes are already happening – and they are – we've barely scratched the surface.