Crystal Washington's Blog

Talk of artificial intelligence in business is pervasive. Everywhere we turn, we’re seeing stories featuring AI company CEOs projecting the loss of up to 20% of jobs to artificial intelligence. To
understand how AI is reshaping organizations, we first need to understand what AI is and why
it’s a hot topic right now.

The term “artificial intelligence” was coined by computer scientist and emeritus Stanford
Professor John McCarthy in 1955. He defined it as ...

As we look around, we’d be hard-pressed not to notice how innovation appears to be speeding
up, whether human adoption follows or not. The Industrial Age, which began in the 1760s in
Great Britain, technically started to wind down in the mid-20th century. However, ages cast a long shadow, and today we are still trying to catch our breath as we attempt to absorb all the innovations being cranked out in the Digital Age, also known as the  Information Ag...

“Crystal, what do you want to happen after you leave the stage?” The person asking the question was part of a client team that was considering me as the AI keynote speaker for their conference. They knew they had an open keynote slot, and their association members wanted more information on artificial intelligence. Yet, they wanted to hear how an AI keynote speaker can inspire change.

The World Economic Forum shared in its article Top 10 tech tren...