As a product manager, you are eager to advance your company and have come across an opportunity to try your hand at artificial intelligence. Reading up on the subject in magazines and blog articles has already sparked some initial ideas, and the initial feedback from your team has also been positive. Now you are ready to get started – but how can you best begin this journey?
The world has changed significantly and at an incredible pace in recent decades due to digitalization, and it will continue to do so. Many companies are currently undergoing digital transformation, or their clever minds are considering how they can start this change within themselves.
For a few years now, buying and selling houses has been a topic that concerns many people. Admittedly, it also concerns me, because my wife and I only bought a new house three years ago and sold our old property shortly thereafter. We did not use an agent to sell our property, and our biggest uncertainty was setting the price. This problem has now been taken up by online brokerage companies, some of which seem to be of Scottish descent because their name starts with a capital M and a small c. These companies offer to provide a price prediction for the house, supported by a small online questionnaire.
The year is 2028. IndFastHighQuality is producing the first cars that are customized to the new driver’s personal style. Unlike ten years ago, when this style was determined by spending hours filling out questionnaires about optional extras, No, this is now done automatically by an AI system, with a few photos from vacations, parties and the proud new owner’s streaming libraries. The car is 100% customized: body, control panels, engine performance, tires, special software, everything, 100% coordinated.
“Machine beats chess world champion”, ‘Computer flies drone’, ‘In the board game Go, humans have no chance against artificial intelligence’. These or similar reports lead to the assumption that computers and machines could soon outstrip humans with their intelligence. Science fiction scenarios fuel the fear of a loss of power, the Frankenstein complex threatens to become reality: a machine turns against its creator, the matrix takes power and we humans are the livestock of an all-powerful and omniscient intelligence.
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