Today at the BoxWorks customer conference, that vision took a considerable step forward with the announcement of a new artificial intelligence toolkit called Box Skills.
Given the high demand for skills in areas like robotics, artificial intelligence and data science, Accenture predicts that eventually "corporate education will replace some higher education" as forward-thinking organizations develop their own alternatives to fill the skills gaps.
"We believe we can do better, combining the hardware with more software – in particular, artificial intelligence to teach users new skills," the startup's CEO Joe Chamdani told TechCrunch in a conversation ahead of today's announcement.
Team Wake Up: Wake Up aims to maximize the benefits of new technologies in behalf of children with Down syndrome allowing them to use Kinect and games based on natural interaction, color detection, gesture recognition and artificial intelligence to enhance their motor skills, attention, memory, perception and communication.
Trends: Future job/Title, Future skills, Future workspace, Future food, Science, Artificial intelligence, Education and learning, Future generation/User, Future creative ways of working.
New technologies, such as the Internet of Things-IoT, computingputing and artificial intelligence, have boosted software development and computational skills in different areas.
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Research has shown that artificial intelligence helps erase jobs that require basic skills and creates more roles for highly educated people.
She has led spending programs for data-analysis software and skills, cloud computing and Watson artificial intelligence technology.
