Artificial intelligence is a $15 billion dollar industry and growing. With more than 2, 600 companies developing intelligent technology, the value of AI is expected to rise to more than $70 billion by 2020. For designers, that represents a major business opportunity. But AI is also a challenge requiring every strength and skill they’ve learned and many they haven’t. They will have to understand sociology, psychology, and biology. They will have to develop a working knowledge of statistics. Creativity and attention to detail—designers’ stock in trade—won’t be enough. Here’s what designers will need to adapt. Think of it as a study guide to the design jobs of the future.
Read:
- A breakdown of how AI relates to other fields
- Experts predict what the Internet will look like in 2025
- AI systems are undergoing behavioral psychology tests
- How brands are using AI to create better customer experiences
Listen:
- Studio 360 on the creativity of computers
- The power of design by TED Radio Hour
- The evolution of thinking machines by the Aspen Ideas Festival
Watch:
- Rana el Kaliouby on tech that can sense your emotions
- Nick Bostrom on designing machines that are smarter than humans
- Sean Follmer on designing shape-shifting objects
- Neri Oxman’s work at the intersection of technology and biology
Follow:
- Martin Ford, author of Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future
- Paola Antonelli, senior curator of architecture and design at the Museum of Modern Art
- Angelica Lim, software developer for Pepper the Robot.
- Andrew McAfee, codirector of MIT’s Initiative on the Digital Economy and co-author of The Second Machine Age
This article was adapted with permission from Huge. Read the original here.
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