/PRNewswire/ Next week, MIT Technology Review, in partnership with Harvard Business Review, will host its annual conference on the future of work, EmTech.
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As artificial intelligence continues to move into the mainstream, companies are combining AI and big data to build and design better products, react faster to changing market conditions, and protect consumers from fraud.
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According to experts at EmTech Digital, MIT Technology Review s annual event on artificial intelligence, big data plus AI creates a foundation for more intelligent products and services ones that initiate maintenance procedures before something breaks, perform more precise operations, or automatically recalibrate resources to meet changing demand and usage patterns.
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Artificial intelligence is often framed in terms of headline-grabbing technology and dazzling promise. But some of the workers who enable these programs the people who do things like code data, flag pictures, or work to integrate the programs into the workplace are often overlooked or undervalued.
“This is a common pattern in the social studies of technology,” said Madeleine Clare Elish, SM ’10, a senior research scientist at Google. “A focus on new technology, the latest innovation, comes at the expense of the humans who are working to actually allow that innovation to function in the real world.