The rise of artificial intelligence is the great story of our time. Artificial intelligence has left the laboratory (and the movie lot) and is in your building. It's in your home. It's in your office. It's pervading all the institutions that drive our global economy. From Alexa to Nest to Siri to Uber to Waze, we are surrounded by smart machines running on incredibly powerful and self-learning software platforms. And this is just the beginning. More and more, machines are doing more and more of the work we perform today. Those who succeed in the next phase of the digital economy are not those who can crate the new machines, but those who figure out what to do with them. That's why co-authors Malcolm Frank, Executive Vice President of Cognizant Strategy, Paul Roehrig, Vice President of Cognizant Digital Business and Ben Pring, Vice President and Director of the Cognizant Center for the Future of Work, essentially write the field guide for navigating this brave, new world. The three joined forces to write the fascinating and thought-provoking "Code Halos" in 2014 and they're back at it again with the ultra-timely and white-knuckle "What To Do When Machines Do Everything: How to Get Ahead in a World of AI, Algorithms, Bots and Big Data." Then they sat down with Consulting Magazine to talk about it.
Consulting: First off, this is a fascinating and timely book. Congratulations. So, why this book and why now?