Not So Special

Media planning and buying Creative industries are likely to be affected, too. Noted advertising executive Sir Martin Sorrell, founder of WPP, the world's largest ad and PR group, said on a recent panel that he expects the way companies buy ad space will become automated "in a highly effective way" within five years. "So you will not be dependent as a client on a 25-year old media planner or buyer, who has limited experience, but you'll be able to pool the data. That's the big change," he said.

By one account, 37 percent of organizations have deployed AI solutions—up 270 percent from four years ago.

Analysts forecast global AI spending will more than double over the next three years, topping US$79 billion by 2022.

The AI-aided process has reduced actionable events from about 2,500 to 150 daily, enabling the professionals in TiVo’s network operations center to more easily manage highly complex operations, 24/7.

And of course states, governance, and social mechanisms — A.I. can have a great role in eliminating bureaucracy, improving the service to citizens, along with the design and performance of social programs.

in most cases, Artificial Intelligence will have a supportive role to humans — empowering the human factor to perform better in handling complex and critical situations that require judgment and creative thinking.

In parallel, there would be numerous new roles and specialties with a focus on technology and science.

States need a new strategy with a focus on education; they need to rethink how markets, companies, and employment agreements should work in the new era of intelligent automation; they need to redesign the social mechanisms to cover a range of new scenarios and situations.