Increasing productivity and improving use of IA in companies. The 2019 innovation barometer, unveiled at the start of December by German services sector union Verdi, and conducted in partnership with the Technical University of Munich, was produced using anonymous responses from 990 staff representatives (42 questions sent to 6,640 people), who sit on company supervisory boards, works councils, from business units of all sizes, at companies in sectors covered by Verdi (services, transport, media, health, finance, etc.)
According to the study, the current deployment of AI at businesses mainly regards so-called ‘weak’ AI, which refers to programmes and algorithms that focus on carrying out a specific task, with a limited capacity for self-learning and autonomy.