Anand Rao: AI is impacting every industry sector and every functional area. It is a general purpose technology that will have a profound influence in the next 10-20 years on how we interact with each other and how individuals, businesses, and governments make decisions. In some cases they are also moving from automating and transforming today's businesses to disrupting our current business models. We are already seeing fundamental ways in which AI has changed our behaviours – from searching for content, to summarising and synthesising what we read, see, or hear, to even creating new forms of art, music, and literature. As a result, businesses that ignore AI are doing so at their own peril.

Predicting what impact AI will have on the workplace in the future when we don't know what will happen next week, due to the Pandemic, is a challenge. However, when talking about AI, the future is already here. It is currently having an impact on talent acquisition, HR, internal communications and pretty much everywhere you look, from medicine, communications and retail. It is no longer that intangible, scary thing seen in a sci-fi movie. We have embraced it already, and most of us make use of it on a daily basis, often without realising.

ARTIFICIAL Intelligence (AI) is the wave of the future. This area of computer science emphasising the creation of intelligent machines that work and react like humans is heavily influencing and taking over the way we get on with daily life. Artificial Intelligence is revolutionising industries and improving the way business is conducted. More importantly, it is revolutionising industries and improving the way business is done, being already widely used in applications including automation, data analytics and natural language processing. On a bigger spectrum, from self-driving cars to voice-initiated mobile phones and computer-controlled robots, the presence of AI is seen and felt almost everywhere.

If artificial intelligence takes bias out of the hiring process, will that finally make the hiring process fair for minorities? Not necessarily, said Paul Daugherty, Accenture's chief technology and innovation officer, at Yahoo Finance's All Markets Summit. AI hiring tools connects companies with more diverse, better quality candidates, said Robert Falzon, vice chairman of Prudential Financial, Inc. "Just from a recruiting standpoint, using artificial intelligence to do the screening of individuals instead of that first interview, what we find, frankly, is we get better quality candidates with more diversity when we take the human out of that first equation," Falzon said. While there are potential flaws, AI improves the overall hiring experience, said Falzon. "It's a way in which you can use technology to, frankly, improve the experience for the individuals that are interviewing for the position, and improve the experience of our HR and hiring areas that are stretched in terms of their ability to… spend time on… cultivating the right pipeline of talent," said Falzon.

The total number of job openings in the US alone rose to 7.3 million in June, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Recently, I read that there are job openings at a large US-based technology company for designers of chipsets to deploy in areas such as on-device machine learning. Forecasts suggest that there will be 3.5 million unfilled cyber-security positions by 2021 . Having said that, are job-seekers today equipped with the right skills to pursue the best jobs in IT? With rapid advances in technology, what one learnt at university or in the workplace over the past years, may not be enough for application in today's business scenario.

The members of the Global University Leaders Forum community convened at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2019 to discuss their role in our ever-changing world. Here are six topics that were top of the agenda as the members considered the future of the university and its role in society. Today data is omnipresent and often overwhelming. By way of example, Domo's Data Never Sleeps 6.0 reported that in 2018 Google conducted an average 3.8 million searches per minute. Though not all graduates will enter data-related fields, universities are starting to work towards increasing data literacy in their student body by adding data science courses and challenges for social science majors so that graduates can effectively communicate with their data-oriented peers and co-workers.

This is a guest blogpost by Matt Jones, lead analytics strategist at Tessella, in which he argues companies with physical products and infrastructure cannot simply cut and paste the tech giant's AI strategy Every conference this year contains a dead human genius reincarnated as software system or a robot. Yes, there is a lot of hype, but there is real worth in AI and Machine Learning. Read our counseling on how to avoid adopting "black box" approach. You forgot to provide an Email Address. This email address doesn't appear to be valid.

Every year I give my forecast for the top 10 workplace trends for the upcoming year. The purpose is to help prepare organizations for the future by collecting, assessing and reporting the trends that will most impact them. You can read my predictions from 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017. These trends are based on hundreds of conversations with executives and workers, a series of national and global online surveys and secondary research from more than 450 different research sources, including colleges, consulting firms, non-profits, the government and trade associations. All economic indicators show a positive view of the U.S. economy in 2018.

The number jobs in artificial intelligence (AI) in the UK has risen dramatically in the last three years, according to Indeed. Since 2014, the number of available AI roles in Britain has increased by 485% - representing a significant spike in demand for employees with the appropriate skills for the job. Yet Indeed's data also reveals there are over two times as many AI jobs available than there are suitable applicants, with a ratio of 2.3 roles available per candidate searching in the last quarter. Interest in AI roles has risen more steadily by 178% in the past three and a half years, not quite high enough to meet the fivefold surge in postings. The popularity of software in innovations including smart home devices and customer service chat bots demonstrate how the industry is developing at pace.

The number jobs in artificial intelligence (AI) in the UK has risen dramatically in the last three years, according to the world's biggest job site Indeed. Since 2014 the number of available AI roles in Britain has increased by 485% – representing a significant spike in demand for employees with the appropriate skills for the job. Yet Indeed's data also reveals there are over two times as many AI jobs available than there are suitable applicants, with a ratio of 2.3 roles available per candidate searching in the last quarter. Interest in AI roles has risen more steadily by 178% in the past three and a half years, not quite high enough to meet the fivefold surge in postings. The popularity of software in innovations including smart home devices and customer service chat bots demonstrate how the industry is developing at pace.