The Collaboration between Humans and Machine

Business leaders around the world are adopting massive technological changes to achieve success and enhance their operational productivity. These technological changes aim to transform the core business algorithms, amplify the growth of the business by changing its interactions with the customers, and encourage employee productivity.

Artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, blockchain technology, and the Internet of Things are slowly and steadily becoming an integral part of our daily lives. In the future, humans will collaborate with machines to exchange and share information, work towards a common goal to fulfill individual and organizational needs. AI-driven robots and tools are predicted to replace humans in organizations to ensure agility in business operations. But the question is that if artificial intelligence and robots replace humans in offices, how will organizations reshape and optimize their business strategies to ensure the optimal integration of talent and input by the machines?

Today's AI-driven revolution is transforming machines into intellectual collaborators. The potential advantages of a sensor-guided, robot-human collaboration are massive. But there might be certain disadvantages to this collaboration as well:

• The proximity to human collaborators: Machines are more powerful than humans. Having 'fragile' humans work near these powerful machines might prove dangerous. Currently, these risks are minimized by simply barring humans from working near active robots, segregating machines and humans in completely different working environments, and distancing humans with shields and quad rails. In a collaborative environment, these separations are not always workable, and hence humans have to partner with active robots (or 'cobots' aka collaborative robots).
• Data overload: Machine learning and data analytics work with rich and censored data. Data analytics derive insights from this data to help businesses make informed decisions after analyzing recent market trends, customer behavior and patterns, their needs and wants. Generating vast amounts of data might overwhelm the computing systems and cause a delay in accurate decision-making.
• Cost: Businesses employ artificial intelligence tools and software to ensure cost-effectiveness and efficiency in business operations. But these tools and software might not be affordable for several enterprises, thus reducing their business growth and agility.

In the future, business leaders will have to accept these disadvantages, move forward with the machine and man alliance, and optimize their business operations accordingly.

Some research and surveys show that this increase in collaboration is one of the top priorities for business leaders. Without the expansion of the relationship between humans and machines across the traditional boundaries of functions and geography, businesses cannot leverage and raise their talents effectively for continuous growth and innovations.

Benefits of the Collaboration 

• Humans and machines will work together to enhance their operational capabilities, their strengths, and fill up each other's weaknesses.
• Working together would reduce the risks of human errors and provide relief to the employees.
• Machines would ensure that humans can perform those tasks that they would be incapable of performing on their own.

The Future of Human-Machine Collaboration

Artificial intelligence is at a critical stage of development. Early adopters are investing in advanced systems with autonomous sensing that can communicate, interpret, and learn on their own. Businesses are focusing on creating optimized business strategies based on the alternative systems of human-machine collaborations. It will not only enhance human capabilities but also unlock unprecedented opportunities for business enterprises.

According to some experts, if businesses continue to invest in human and artificial intelligence collaboration, it will boost their revenues by an incredible value of 38% approximately. Currently, it is unclear whether or not humans can handle machine intelligence, but what is clear is that the future is about to bring unimaginable opportunities for business leaders and will transform the very cores of our working environment.