Look out lawyers and accountants. It's not just chauffeurs and taxi drivers that could be looking for new avenues of employment as machine learning moves forward. According to Gartner, aspects of the legal, financial and even medical professions could be turned into utilities with companies and individuals paying for what they use – just like heating and electricity bills.
The economics of AI and machine learning will lead to many tasks performed by professionals today becoming low-cost utilities," said Stephen Prentice, vice president and Gartner Fellow.