Ben Ward, CEO - StudyStash
AI is transforming whole industries, promising new levels of competitiveness and productivity, and fundamentally changing the nature of work. Forecasts suggest it will add over $13 trillion of activity to the global economy by 2030, putting its impact on a par with other general purpose technologies such as electricity, the steam engine and computers.
Information technology has delivered huge productivity improvements. However, knowledge intensive sectors such as law, accounting and medicine have been immune to automation as they have relied on uniquely human characteristics such as reasoning, learning and expressive communication.
But things are different with AI: machines can now learn, reason and deliver outputs in human-like format and style. Ironically, the very industries that have previously been immune to automation are now uniquely vulnerable to it. AI can construct legal agreements, enhance data analysis, detect complex accounting fraud, diag...
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