In 2020, AI-centric approaches will trickle down from the large manufacturers (such as jet engine makers, appliance manufacturers and auto factories) to small and medium-sized production operations who couldn't afford the investment or R&D commitment in the past. More and more tasks on smaller factory floors can be supplemented—or even replaced—through the use of customized, yet reasonably priced, AI solutions.
Predictions about AI in 2020, from robotic process automation (RPA) to human intelligence augmentation (HIA) to natural language processing (NLP)