
Cloud office is the only technology to enter the Plateau of Productivity in the 2019 Gartner Hype Cycle for Digital Government Technology, according to Gartner, Inc. The Plateau of Productivity highlights technologies that are hitting mainstream adoption within organizations….
Government agencies are moving rapidly to adopt cloud-office platforms because of the desire to consolidate collaboration environments, reduce costs, redeploy IT staff, drive simplicity and provide more functionality to users more quickly. Cloud office makes the introduction of capabilities including everyday artificial intelligence (AI), mobile collaboration, collaborative content authoring and workstream collaboration part of the mainstream.
The recent surveys, studies, forecasts and other quantitative assessments of the health and progress of AI highlighted the role of AI in cybersecurity defense and in scoring standardized tests, the relationships between data migrating to the cloud and data modernization, lax security standards for IoT devices, and that the U.S. still leads the global race for AI domination but that China is making more rapid progress.

The recent surveys, studies, forecasts and other quantitative assessments of the health and progress of AI estimated the impact on productivity of human-machine collaboration, the number of jobs that could be automated in major U.S. cities, and the size of the future AI in retail and healthcare markets; and found AI optimism among the general population, algorithms outperforming (again) pathologists, and that our very limited understanding of how our brains learn may improve machine learning.
The surveys, studies, forecasts and other quantitative assessments of the health and progress of AI for this week find increased VC excitement over AI startups, low trust in AI advice by U.S. consumers and global business executives, China and Germany ahead of the US in the use of AI in healthcare while the US spends more, and the inaccuracy of facial recognition.