Commentary
41% See AI Benefits For Healthcare, 27% For Driverless Cars
- by Chuck Martin , Staff Writer, August 30, 2017
People who fail to adopt artificial intelligence in their jobs may miss out on some opportunities.
The missed opportunities can vary from the speed of getting work done to the level of productivity, based on a new study.
The study comprised a survey of 1,000 U.S. online adults conducted by Google Surveys for Conversica, an AI company.
There are several areas in which people who fail to adopt AI in their jobs will be left behind, according to the survey. They are:
- 40% -- Will miss out on new job opportunities
- 35% -- Are replaced by people with AI skills
- 32% -- Will be inefficient and less productive
- 28% -- Can’t get quality work done quickly
Not all agree, with almost a quarter (24%) saying AI won’t leave people behind in their jobs.
Despite the view that many will miss out on some opportunities by avoiding AI, the majority (61%) say they will not use AI to get ahead in their job over the next five years. Of those who will, here’s how they plan to use AI:
- 20% -- To boost productivity
- 18% -- It will free me from repetitive tasks
- 11% -- It will make me more valuable in this job
- 9% -- Help me find the right next job
Slightly more than half (51%) of consumers say AI will not make them smarter or better at their job over the next five years. The other half see a range of areas they expect AI help with, such as decreasing the number of repetitive tasks (26%), creating faster learning of new tasks (18%), making better and faster decisions (16%), helping with more critical thinking and analysis time (15%) and having helpful AI assistants do the work (11%).
Consumers also see many ways AI can help humans, most notably in healthcare. Here are the ways consumers say AI could help humans:
- 41% -- Improved diagnosis and patient care
- 27% -- Driverless cars will prevent accidents
- 22% -- More productive and competitive
- 21% -- Better education for all
- 20% -- More time to spend with family and friends
Of course, there is the other side as well. A quarter (25%) of consumers say AI won’t help humans in any way.
Chuck Martin is Editor of the AI & IoT Daily at MediaPost and writes the daily Connected Thinking column. He is a NY Times Business bestselling author and his latest book is “Digital Transformation 3.0” (The New Business-to-Consumer Connections of The Internet of Things.) He is CEO of Net Future Institute and a frequent keynote speaker internationally. Follow him on Twitter @chuckmartin and contact him at Chuck@MediaPost.com.
I wonder what percentage of the decision-makers at the major automobile insurance companies believes that driverless cars will prevent accidents. Higher than 27 percent, for sure. Consumers will pay a lot higher rates for resisting AI. Not right away, but I foresee driverless cars coming soon. No one much wanted air bags or seat belts but we have them anyway in the name of far greater safety.
How accurate can polls be? (2016 election) rest my case.
ANYBODY can state any stats. Here's mine:
Right, Douglas, the technology will be there likely ahead of desired adoption.
Was just a survey, Mark, though the sample was built to be representative of U.S. population, so guess we'll see.