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AI investment could boost global business revenue by 38%

Open-access content Tuesday 30th January 2018 — updated 5.50pm, Wednesday 29th April 2020

Increasing artificial intelligence and human-machine collaboration investment to the same levels of the world’s top performing companies could boost global business revenues by almost two-fifths.


30 JAN 2018 | CHRIS SEEKINGS
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That is according to a new report by Accenture, which also shows that employment levels could be raised by 10% during that time. Read the full article on our Predictions site here

This article appeared in our January 2018 issue of The Actuary .
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