Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Permission to publish provided by Abigail Rabi at tenfold.com. From The Terminator to Blade Runner, pop culture has always leaned towards a chilling depiction of artificial intelligence (AI) and our future with AI at the helm. Recent headlines about Facebook panicking because their AI bots developed a language of their own have us hitting the alarm button once again. Should we really feel unsettled with an AI future?

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Permission to publish provided by Ira Padilla. We are living in exciting and innovative times with futuristic technology literally at our fingertips. But for the longest time, small to medium sized businesses were not serviced by the latest tech trends enterprises have been able to benefit from. In this article, we'll explore these technology trends and how they will impact business in 2018 and beyond.

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Permission to publish provided by Ira Padilla. For those who may find awkward the reference to "half a decade" and not the "next decade" here is why: AI is evolving at such a staggering rate that it is simply not possible to foresee what it will represent in 10 years' time. As Maurice Conti (Chief Innovation Officer at Telefónica Alpha and former director at Autodesk) reminded on his intervention at TEDX in February 2017, in human history the "Hunter-Gatherer" age lasted for several million years, then the Agricultural age lasted several thousand years, the Industrial age has been around for a couple of centuries now, the Information age has merely a few decades and the AI age (although the concept was drawn in the 1950s) has in fact effectively started less than half a decade ago. It is very easy to mistake AI for RPA (Robotic Process Automation), so let's start by defining what sets them apart.