Jerry Levine is Chief Evangelist & General Counsel at ContractPodAi. He helps guide global client success and shape overall product vision. It was 25 years ago when IBM's artificial intelligence system, Deep Blue, defeated Garry Kasparov in a six-game rematch of chess. But this competition did not reveal AI to be smarter than its human opponent, who was at the time the reigning world champion; Deep Blue's success demonstrated that we, humans, could program AI to perform functions we cannot do quickly on our own--analyzing vast amounts of data and processing any number of natural languages, just to name a couple of functions. Today, AI continues to attract more attention and interest than most other innovations, including when it comes to nonfungible tokens (NFTS).

The World Economic Forum says technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) will displace 75 million jobs by 2022 but will also create 133 million new roles. To prepare workers for these new jobs, organizations will have to provide significant resources for upskilling their workforces. And employees will need to take personal responsibility for their career development in a context of rapid technological change. How can HR professionals prepare employees and organizations for a present and future where AI is increasingly working with humans to drive business outcomes? "HR professionals need to begin by shifting their mindsets about AI," said Jeff Schwartz, a principal with Deloitte Consulting.

When she calls me, she can immediately tell if something is wrong, simply from the way I say "Hello" or "I'm fine". Like many relationships with those we hold close, my mom and I have built a level of trust to the point that she knows how I'm feeling from a simple word or phrase. But unfortunately, I, like many others in the world today, spend as much (if not more) time interacting with technology as I do with the people close to me. Yet unlike talking to my mom or a friend, the way we interact with devices is completely transactional. My cell phone can't read between the lines and understand what's really going on with me.

Another year has passed and humanity, for better or worse, remains in charge of the planet. Unfortunately for the robots, TNW has it on good authority they won't take over next year either. In the meantime, here's what the experts think will happen in 2019: Dialpad, an AI startup created by the original founders of Google Voice, tells TNW that all the hype over robot assistants that can make calls on your behalf may be a bit premature. Etienne Manderscheid, VP AI, Machine Learning, for the company says "robots may attempt to sound human next year, but this will work for few domains in 2019." Despite the hype brought on by Google Duplex and resulting conversations around speech synthesis, true text-to-speech technology will not be able to carry on conversations outside of the specific domains they're built around for at least another few years.