Bernard Marr | Future . Business . Success

Every executive I speak with wants to deploy AI agents in their business. Yet most are making the same costly mistake: choosing the wrong tasks to automate.
In my previous article, A Beginner’s Guide To Building AI Agents, I explained how to get started with agentic AI. Now it’s time to tackle the most critical step: finding the right jobs to use them for. Get this wrong, and you’ll waste time and money...

AI agents are moving out of research labs and pilot projects and straight into the day-to-day reality of work. These autonomous, action-taking systems are already handling tasks that once consumed hours of human effort, from coordinating workflows to...

The most interesting AI conversations are happening in rooms where nobody is trying to sell you a slide deck, they are trying to solve real problems.
That was the energy at Cisco’s AI Summit, a day packed with candid discussions about what is working, what is stalling and what needs to change for AI to create durable value in real businesses. I left with my head full of ideas, and a deep sense of...

For years, progress in artificial intelligence has been measured by how convincingly machines can talk. The next phase is defined by how well they can think.
Large language models have proven remarkably good at summarising documents, drafting emails, and answering general questions. Yet as organisations push AI into areas such as science, engineering, medicine and high-stakes decision-making, a weakness becomes...