A brand manager needs an advertisement. So, the brand manager sends a brief to the senior art director (in-house or at an agency) and asks for something amazing to be created. On or before the deadline, the brand manager and the art director meet to review the work. The brand manager is presented with three approaches, and after a number of meetings, a number of revisions and revelations, they agree on a final product. This is a process that has repeated itself for more than a century, and AI is not going to stop it.

Last year, many Americans worried that artificial intelligence (AI) might replace them at work. This year, employees around the world are wondering why their employers don't provide them with the kind of AI-enabled technology they're starting to use at home. That's one way to think about the results of a second annual survey about AI in the workplace, conducted by Oracle and research firm Future Workplace. This year, 50% of survey respondents say they're currently using some form of AI at work--a major leap compared to only 32% in last year's survey. Perhaps because workers are seeing firsthand in their personal lives how Siri and Alexa can quickly answer questions, their anxiety about using the technology at work is lessening, suggests Emily He, senior vice president of Oracle Human Capital Management (HCM) Cloud and executive sponsor of the survey.

AI, specifically "augmented intelligence," is going to have both an awesome and an unfortunate impact on our posterity. Let's explore one possible way AI may impact the future of work, and how it may dramatically change how we train our workforce. A brand manager needs an advertisement. So, the brand manager sends a brief to the senior art director (in-house or at an agency) and asks for something amazing to be created. On or before the deadline, the brand manager and the art director meet to review the work.

LONDON – Artificial intelligence will take your job. More specifically, narrow AI (programmes that excel at a specific task) will soon be able to handle any part of a job that can be made into a process and do it 100x faster than you. The justified reaction to this is fear – 'how am I going to find a new job with the skills I already have?' Thanks to the ability of AI to tackle mundane tasks, we have a great opportunity to advance to the next stage of human development, but if we are not prepared it could just as easily lay waste to employment as we know it. We need to change the way we think of work if we want to keep earning a living, and the way to do that is to be more human, not to try and compete with the literal office drone of the future.

Last week, Google's DeepMind team published a paper describing AlphaZero, a new generic reinforcement learning algorithm that has done some remarkable things. First, in about eight hours, it taught itself to beat AlphaGo, a human-trained AI system that beat the best human Go players in the world. It also taught itself chess and Shogi (known as Japanese chess) in about four hours and beat the best human-trained AI systems at those games. How did AlphaZero teach itself? The rules of the games were programmed into the system.