Five AI Technologies Businesses Need to Know About
Even in the next five years, we’re nowhere near the AI advances we’ll see in our lifetimes. Renowned futurist Ray Kurzweil of Google predicts that the 2030s will usher in an era of human-machine synthesis. Imagine Midjourney plugged directly into your neocortex, constructing images on the spot based on what’s happening in your imagination. The sci-fi blockbusters are coming, but here’s what we can expect in the next half-decade.
Gesture controls
Gesture controls are the way to a button-less, switch-less, and touchless future.
Instead of communicating with computers through life insurance email list clicks and keystrokes, we will give our orders through blinks and waves. All sorts of products are already honing their expertise to distinguish your human form from the ambient background.
BMW drivers can send commands to their infotainment system by making a peace sign or a Vulcan salute. The technology is already quietly installed in most smartphones. Depth-sensing cameras are the magic trick that makes our selfies look like magazine covers. Soon, we’ll be able to experience Minority Report and control industrial machines and surgical robots without even touching them.
Computer Vision
Computer vision can help eject defective products from the assembly line or help cars avoid pedestrians. You'll also find these virtual eyes inside document automation systems like ProcessMaker IDP.
In the office, AI is teaming up with optical character recognition to help computers read documents. Try it yourself: Take a photo of a plane ticket or a book cover with a recent iPhone. In your photo album, you can highlight the text in the photo and copy it into an email or note.