Companies struggle to use AI to improve the way their businesses operate, a challenge that can be mitigated by following five rules.

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Keith Jones of Sw7, one of the leading independent technology accelerators in Africa, offers practical tips for start-ups in the artificial intelligence space.

Ethics is slowly edging to the top of the business agenda. With the adoption of digital technologies, with artificial intelligence and powerful computer algorithms at the forefront, ethical choices should be factored in early and mindfully.

Is South Africa ready for AI? What about the role of humans in AI? Is AI really going to take over our jobs? Where do companies start, when it comes to AI readiness?

Here's a paradox: as companies try to streamline their businesses by using artificial intelligence to make critical decisions, they may inadvertently make themselves less efficient.

Advanced analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning are arguably the most powerful general-purpose technologies invented since the dawn of modern computing. Extracting value from these is an imperative for business and society.

As more South African businesses realise the benefits of using Big Data to produce strategic insights and key decision making, there is a growing need to invest in the appropriate skills.

How will your company need to evolve to stay ahead?

Artificial intelligence is getting smarter by leaps and bounds - within this century, research suggests, a computer AI could be as "smart" as a human being. And then, says Nick Bostrom, it will overtake us.