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What AI means for innovation

What AI means for innovation

AI is one of the most powerful technologies ever invented by mankind. Google CEO, Sundar Pichai, has even called AI more profound than fire or electricity. AI is already beginning to transform every function in every industry. Undoubtedly, AI is also creating opportunities for innovation in ways that were previously impossible. These opportunities include both product and process innovation. Let's start with the impact of AI on product innovation. As an excellent example of how a company can embed AI into products and services in order to make them smarter, take John Deere, the world's largest farm machinery company. Deere has embedded AI capabilities into several of its product lines. The company's see and spray tractors provide one such example. As the tractor with a see and spray attachment moves through a farm, an array of high resolution cameras takes images of whatever is growing underneath. An untrained human eye would have a tough time distinguishing between a crop and a weed.…

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