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Video 1: AI automating services in a hotel guest room Video 2: Alibaba using AI in hotel guest rooms
Current Situation
• The world is experiencing a rapid adoption of AI in most
successful business organizations such as Apple, Facebook,
Google, Microsoft and Amazon.
• Since the year 2000 there have been 14 times increment in
the number of active AI start-ups (Columbus, 2018).
• Jobs requiring AI skills have grown 4.5 times since 2013.
• AI can enable a business organisation to transform the core
parts of its business through digitization.
(Columbus, 2018)
(Columbus, 2018)
Current Situation Cont’d
• AI is also advantageous in saving costs of
operations, eliminating human error, and
delivering superior services.
• Currently, various organizations have
already implemented AI in the form of
robotic processes automation, computer
vision, and machine learning with telecom,
high-tech, and financial-services sectors
being the leading in adoption (see the
image
• Other sectors where AI might be crucial are
still lagging behind with dearth of
information in the hospitality sector.