Reaping the benefits of automation and artificial intelligence

One of the key drivers of automation risk is task composition and specifically tasks that are manual, routine, computational, managed, social or literal. FILE PHOTO | NMG

Picture this: You are cruising along Uhuru Highway and all of a sudden, your car comes to an abrupt halt, exactly two metres from the car in front of you, without you having hit the brakes. After 30 minutes on the roads, you arrive at the main entrance of your place of work, at the exact time the car informed you when the journey started.

You disembark and make your way to your office just in time to see the car finish parking itself as you peer through the window to confirm that it is still in one piece. As you settle in at your desk, you get a prompt that the automated bank reconciliation system has successfully completed its work on 30 different bank accounts—all while as you were sleeping through the night.

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Note: The results are not exact but very close to the actual.