1. Notes from the
WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM 2017
Source: CIO
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2. The World Economic Forum Annual Meeting is
a collaborative engagement for top leaders to
shape global and industrial agendas.
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Source: WEF
3. One of the major topics
discussed this year was
artificial intelligence.
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4. According to Infosys Study,
businesses should expect
noticeable AI adoption and
growth by 2020.
Organizations that have deployed AI
technologies expect to see a 39% percent
average increase in revenue alongside a
37% reduction in costs by 2020.
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Source: InfoSys
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“Artificial Intelligence adoption is on the rise and we are
excited to see the investments in AI that businesses are
gradually making to derive meaningful and creative change.”
-Sandeep Dadlani, President & Head of Americas, Infosys
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6. “People don’t understand
how deep AI already is in
so many things.”
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-Marc Benioff, CEO, Salesforce
Many other top industry and business
leaders echoed a similar frame of thought.
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“Our responsibility is to
have AI augment the
human ingenuity and
augment the human
opportunity. I think that’s
the opportunity in front of
us and that’s what we have
got to go to work on.”
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-Satya Nadella, CEO, Microsoft
“The reality is that it’s also
opening up a large
number of jobs – certain
areas are going to shrink
and certain areas are
going to grow. We saw
this with every industrial
revolution.”
-Ryan Permeh, Chief Scientist &
Cofounder, Cylance
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7. The world needs technological
breakthroughs like AI to kick start
weak economic growth, according to
Satya Nadella, CEO at Microsoft.
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Speaking at the World Economic Forum in
Davos, Nadella rebutted claims that AI would
accelerate wealth disparity and instead said
that it could be a vital driver of growth.
8. Jobs of the future won’t be blue or
white collar they’ll be ‘new collar.’
“Think about activities changing with the
technologies. When you do your job, there
will be things that take you a lot of time to
research and do … Then you have the time
to do what I think we all humans do best,”
says IBM CEO Ginni Rometty.
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9. Google co-founder
‘surprised’ by speed of
AI advancements
Brin said that when he was in charge of
Alphabet's research group he didn't pay
much attention to a team working on
AI. Now the technology, operated by a
division of the company called Google
Brain, touches nearly every piece of its
business …
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10. The World Economic Forum indicates that
emerging technologies such as artificial
intelligence are already starting to have a
disruptive effect on society.
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