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Why Human Integration Is Critical to the Future of AI Posted on : Feb 20 - 2021

Progress in AI technology promises to usher in a new era of automation and innovation. But will advances in machine intelligence and the march toward automation displace human intelligence?

Half of businesses have already adopted AI technology to streamline at least one function, according to a recent McKinsey survey, and Gartner projects that 90% of enterprises will have brought aboard an automation architect by 2025.

As more organizations turn to AI-augmented automation to boost productivity and make tedious, time-consuming tasks more efficient, the human professional’s role won’t diminish. Far from making humans irrelevant, the growing sophistication of AI actually makes humans–their insights, their experience, their moral and ethical judgment–all the more essential.

To understand why, it helps to think about AI and human intelligence in the context of Alan Turing’s trailblazing work.

Turing, considered by many as the father of computer science, was the first scientist to define an intelligence test, called the Turing test. The test is remarkably straightforward: Have an investigator chat with two agents–one machine, the other human–and see if the investigator can determine which agent is a machine. If he or she can’t tell, that’s an indication that machines have reached human intelligence levels. View More