The Boon of Artificial Intelligence Systems in the 21st Century

As artificial intelligence and robotic systems take over more of the known from home appliances, driver assistance systems to route-finding in maps, there is need to foster a culture of innovation and research to find new business opportunities, challenges, create new products, experience and value. Based on this backdrop, this paper illuminates on the meaning, history and development of artificial intelligent systems and its practical application. The article describes some of the benefits of AI and robotic systems in operations. It also indicates the wide gap that prevails between developed and developing economies in terms of extensive development and utilizing expert systems; before making a conclusion in regard to what should be done by African economies in terms of reengineering the development and enhancement of skills of AI and robotics technology. Descriptive research design is applied in this case. The article is based on secondary sources of data such as magazines, news articles, books and relevant scholarly literature.