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Watch Accenture’s Technology Vision 2020 video, and then reflect upon the six trends it points out. Which trend are you most drawn to, now that you have completed your undergraduate study in information technology? How do you plan to contribute to that field? What excites you most about the growth in that trend? Provide additional details that are not mentioned in the video on how the trend will impact business performance.

Peer 1 to response to After watching Accenture’s Technology Vision 2020 video and reflecting on the trends, I find that I am most drawn to the trend of AI. As the video stated, however, the focus should be to find better ways for humans to interact with AI. Humans are the teachers of AI, and without that collaboration and attention, AI will never be able to reach its full potential. Businesses have been primarily using AI to automate some of their processes and basic tasks (Daugherty, Carrel-Billiard, Biltz 2020). However, AI can be used for much more than this. The company I work for uses some AI to perform basic tasks as well, such as job cost moves, but I would like to contribute to this field in the short term by giving more attention to this AI and helping to teach it more complex tasks. Long term, if I am to come into a senior leadership position, I would contribute by emphasizing the importance of human and AI collaboration to my team members and to the company. The focus would be on effective communication with the AI, as opposed to the traditional “command and response” relationship between humans and AI.What’s exciting about this trend is the seemingly endless possibilities for uses of AI. It is currently a very new technology, and is only being used in a limited capacity, performing simple automations and tasks, and what is exciting is how much more can be done with this technology. What is also exciting and interesting is the philosophical and ethical implication. If true AI were to become a reality, there would be significant existential implications regarding the definition of life and consciousness. There is possibly unimaginable untapped potential with this trend. making it the most interesting and exciting of all the topics covered in the video to me. Some of the more near future trends of AI technology include AI generated songs and movies by entertainment companies, fully automated factories requiring no human supervision, and the use of AI to generate quality training data for itself, to address the issue of bias and data scarcity, and many more (AI, 2020). These trends and innovations have the potential to significantly change the way society operates. The second trend of fully automated factories probably has the most impact on business performance, greatly reducing costs and and streamlining production. Additionally, the third trend of AI being able to generate training data for itself would accelerate to growth of this technology which would allow businesses to put AI to better use. All in all, this is a very exciting trend in technology and I am looking forward to seeing what AI can do for business and society in the future.ReferencesAI (July 16, 2020). What is Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Business. Business World Innovative Technologies – Retrieved from https://www.businessworldit.com/ai/artificial-intelligence-in-business/Daugherty, Paul Carrel-Billiard, Marc Blitz, Michael (April 28, 2020). Technology Vision 2020: We, the Post-Digital People. Accenture – Retrieved from https://www.accenture.com/us-en/insights/technology/technology-trends-2020

Peer 2: First of all, I would like to congratulate all of you for making it to the finish line. I hope I see you on grad day next month.Out of the video trends for 2020, I get to enjoy the Robots of the Wild trend. I have always been fascinated by mechanics and robotics, such a trend drives me in. Cobots or robots collaboration is a new industrial revolution, we have seen that in many industries already. The automotive industry uses the (HRC) or human-robot collaboration on their assembly lines, which creates a great combination of precision and speed in the process that benefits consumers with little human interaction (Weiss et al, 2021). On the other hand, the healthcare industry has had an increase in coexistence collaboration (human-robot).”The field of rehabilitation robotics provides therapy for persons seeking to recover their physical, social, communication, or cognitive function, and/or that assist persons who have a chronic disability to accomplish activities of daily living”(Van der Loos et al, 2016). Technology, robotics, and AI go hand to hand, although, I’m all set to start the cybersecurity (MS) program in January. I’m planning to take some robotics courses along the way, I enjoy schematics and building things. Certainly will be an interesting experience.      I think what excites me the most about the trend, is the possibility of combining strength with a computer-driven smart machine. Working environments are going towards an automation era, we will see more often cobots over the upcoming years. Even though the idea of humans working together with AI bots sounds very good to me, we must realize the many challenges society must overcome. “When it comes to discussions about AI bots, much of the conversation tends to focus on job replacements and fear that computers will one day take the world. The assumptions are that humans and machines are competitors, and Robots are superior”(Daugherty & Wilson, 2018).RegardsAM          ReferenceDaugherty, P. R., & Wilson, H. J. (2018). Human + Machine?: Reimagining Work in the Age of AI. Harvard Business Review Press