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Artificial Intelligence is increasingly being deployed in content-related operations such as translation and transcription. Capturing value will depend on four key factors.

Toutiao, the media giant and new aggregator platform, has created a strong competitive advantage by leveraging machine learning to provide customized content to its readers, but that doesn鈥檛 mean the company doesn鈥檛 still rely on top talent to get the job done.

The potential of AI to change the world is undeniable, and yet there is an ugly side to this transformational technology in the form of biased and exclusionary machine learning. Amar Ashar and Sandra Cortesi of the Berkman Klein Center鈥檚 Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence group detail some of the most pressing issues related to the AI divide and explore how AI can become more inclusive as the technology takes greater hold globally.

As companies adopt artificial intelligence to increase efficiency, are their employees skilled enough to use those technologies effectively? Professor Prithwiraj Choudhury looks to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for a case study.

You see disruption on the horizon, you recognize a big market, you know the change is coming, you know technology is going drive it, you know the value and business models are about to fundamentally change 鈥� now what? GE鈥檚 Bill Ruh highlights how industrial firms can be proactive and take digital transformation in to their own hands 鈥� before they are disrupted themselves.

To be a successful omnichannel retailer in the age of e-commerce, Target can no longer simply continue to incrementally improve each individual aspect of its business. Instead, the company needs a unique and systemwide digital supply strategy that will strengthen Target鈥檚 customer promise as well as its bottom line.

As customer demand for greater computing power and product customizations grows, Intel must ask itself, 鈥淲hat is the future the computing supply chain?鈥� and find a way to stay relevant as microprocessors gain further dominance.

How can Maersk, the world’s largest shipping company, embrace IoT, blockchain, and autonomous technology, to remain competitive in the digital world?

3D printing and virtual warehousing has the power to improve the consumer offering and increase the efficiency of the supply chain by providing wider product variety with faster delivery while accessing scale manufacturing advantages and reducing inventory holding cost and production waste. This technology has the potential to fundamentally change global trade dynamics, consumer buying behavior and business strategy as it enables a shift away from the physical and into the virtual.

Over the last 10 years, advanced manufacturing has blossomed in a rural pocket of Mississippi. Led by Dean Nitin Nohria and Senior Associate Dean for Research Jan Rivkin, sixteen HBS faculty traveled there together last fall for a closer look.