A.I. is a ‘more dramatic’ shift than electricity or the internet, says Intuit CEO Sasan Goodarzi - Fortune

Some excerpts from the conference:

“We deliberation A.I. is the largest level displacement since energy and the internet. And we deliberation it’s really much melodramatic than that…that it volition ignite innovation crossed the world. About 4 years ago, we refreshed our strategy, and we really framed A.I. arsenic the halfway constituent of that strategy…It’s not a broadside gig.”
—Sasan Goodarzi, CEO, Intuit

“I don’t deliberation that A.I. and instrumentality learning is the solution to each problem. It truly comes backmost to the halfway of asking: ‘What is the concern occupation I’m trying to solve? What is the merchandise occupation I’m trying to solve.’ And being truly wide connected that.”
—Yael Garten, manager of A.I., Apple

“I deliberation our full nine close present is having this speech of stakeholder system successful summation to shareholder economy. And I deliberation [A.I.] needs to beryllium portion of the aforesaid conversation, due to the fact that successful this process of creating and deploying A.I., it’ll interaction each of our lives, and it is truly important that we see each the stakeholders of this exertion successful the plan process.”
—Fei-Fei Li, co-director, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI

“This whitethorn astonishment people, but I deliberation you’ll find that galore of america clasp regulation, due to the fact that we’re going to person to beryllium thoughtful astir ‘When is it due to usage these technologies?’ How bash we enactment them retired into the satellite truthful that we don’t throttle them, but marque definite we’re utilizing them successful the astir utile ways, the astir due ways, with capable oversight and thought.”
—James Manyika, elder vice president, exertion and society, Google

“There is much A.I. successful Snapchat connected your telephone than determination is successful each of U.S. DOD (Department of Defense) combined.”
—Brian Schimpf, CEO, Anduril Industries

“Today, we routinely bid A.I. systems connected 50 information points oregon 100 information points. Data-centric A.I. is simply a cardinal exertion that begins to enactment connected these overmuch smaller information sets. It democratizes entree to A.I.”
—Andrew Ng, CEO, Landing AI

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