A.I: The decimation of jobs or the dawn of new ones?

In an Artificial Intelligence future, those with high-end computing skills will not only survive, but thrive… This is according to Digital Skills Academy CEO and Founder, Paul Dunne. "No industry – from farming to fintech – is immune to the changes being wrought by the new digital economy," says Dunne. And Artificial Intelligence (AI), once the stuff of sci-fi, is already making an impact in the digital world, he notes. Gartner predicts that by 2018, 20 percent of business content will be authored by machines, more than 3 million workers globally will be supervised by a'robo-boss' and 45 percent of the fastest-growing companies will have fewer employees than instances of smart machines. By 2020, autonomous software agents outside of human control will participate in five percent of all economic transactions and smart agents will facilitate 40 percent of mobile interactions.