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Collaboration will drive AI for credit unions

Data is the power behind innovation, tech expert says.

September 16, 2019
Ron Jooss
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In the long-term, artificial intelligence (AI) will perform virtually all our day-to-day duties, says John Best, CEO of Best Innovation Group.

But in the immediate future, AI applications will act as our assistants.

“Tomorrow’s AI revolution will grow from today’s technology,” Best says. “We’re going to have applications in place that take what we do today and do it better.”

Whether employees are in the call center or accounting, they’ll use AI to assist them with their everyday duties, he says.

The driver of that revolution will be data, he says. An example of an AI application that is driven by data is Apple’s intelligent assistant Siri, which answers voice queries based on billions of data points.

Best notes that the more questions Siri receives, the more powerful its database becomes. “Siri is slowly getting smarter and smarter and smarter,” he says. “It’s a function of the data.”

Collaboration is the optimal opportunity for credit unions in this environment, Best says.

“You can’t out-Google Google,” he says. “You won’t out-Apple Apple. But as a collaborative group you can destroy them because this technology is handmade for collaboration. Your data together is far more powerful than your data separately.”

Best says the user experience is changing. As consumers become more familiar with AI, they will make transactions through voice assistants from virtually anywhere.

“Everybody will have an assistant,” Best says. You won’t be competing for top of wallet but to be the top assistant, he adds.

Best says financial institutions are already making big bets on AI.

“It’s already happening, but it’s not just the J.P. Morgans that can do it,” he says. “As a collaborative group you can do it too.”

Best addressed the co-located 2019 CUNA Technology and Operations & Member Experience Council Conferences.

►Click here for more conference coverage from CUNA News, and get live updates on Twitter via @cumagazine, @CUNA_News, @CUNACouncils, and by using the #TechCouncil and #OMECouncil hashtags. Learn more about the CUNA Councils, a member-led professional society for credit union executives, at cunacouncils.org.

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