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AI in the real world: From cost cutter to competitive weapon
PCQuest
|April 2025
AI is no longer hype-it's the new business backbone. From saving $350M at ServiceNow to transforming farms and factories, enterprises are scaling smarter, faster, and bolder. The future of work? It's already clocked in
For years, artificial intelligence (AI) carried a weight of expectations so immense, it felt like it might collapse under its own hype. Experts warned of a bubble. Skeptics said the technology wasn't ready. Economists predicted disruption without dividends. But as we enter 2025, the numbers tell a different story. Companies that moved early on AI aren't just surviving—they're thriving. Some, like ServiceNow, are saving $350 million a year through AI integration. Others are redesigning industries altogether. Across sectors and geographies, AI has evolved from a promising side project to a core business operating system.
And the transformation is real, measurable, and multiplying.
From the Lab to the Lobby: How AI is Becoming Operational
At ServiceNow, AI isn’t something that sits in a corner of the R&D lab. It’s in customer service. It’s solving IT tickets. It’s helping HR onboard employees. It’s making developers faster. And it’s just getting started. According to Dorit Zilbershot, Vice President of AI Experiences and Innovation, AI agents are now tackling computer malfunctions and administrative tasks, freeing up teams to focus on higher-order work. Developer productivity alone has jumped 20%. And this isn't just efficiency for the sake of bragging rights. These changes have translated into a real-world savings of hundreds of millions of dollars.
That’s not theoretical transformation. That’s a new corporate metabolism.
ServiceNow’s vision is clear: in the near future, business infrastructure will be agent-based, not app-based. Intelligent systems will operate like digital employees—taking decisions, executing commands, and interacting across platforms—completely autonomously. And unlike past automation cycles, this isn’t about cutting heads. It’s about expanding capacity. Jobs aren't disappearing. They're evolving.
Lessons from India: Where AI is Already Changing the Rules of Work
This story is from the April 2025 edition of PCQuest.
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