The chairman of Alibaba, Joe Tsai, speaks on Wednesday at CNBCS Converge Live event in Singapore.
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The future of artificial intelligence is an important topic of conversation between global technology and business leaders at CNBCS Converge Live in Singapore.
Numerous managers talked about the potential of AI and discussed, as expected, that it is about the future of work and productivity.
Here is a compilation of quotes from some of the top corporate leaders who are present live this week:
Joe Tsai, chairman of the Alibaba Group
Joe Tsai, chairman of the e-commerce giant Alibabatalked about how AI improve productivity and increase global GDP with an addressable market of “at least 10 trillion US dollars if not larger”.
“If you look at Ai, what does it do?
Tsai also discussed how the release of the open sourcing R1 model from Chinese Ai Start-up Deepseek influenced the global AI room in January and led to a “spread of applications”.
“I think the so-called Deekseek moment is really not about whether China has a better AI than the USA or vice versa. It's really about the power of open source,” he said.
“As soon as you have the Open Source Open Source model, people can record the model and use it for their own infrastructure, regardless of whether it is in the data center or in your laptop, suddenly you have the power of AI on your fingertips.”
“Now they have small companies and large companies and companies as well as individuals and entrepreneurs who develop next to these open source [models]So the AI game is not only up to the five richest companies in the world that can afford to invest $ 50 billion a year, ”he added.
Dean Carignan, AI innovations at Microsoft, at Microsoft
Dean Carignan, AI innovations lead MicrosoftDiscussed the concept of “human AI” and how it can help improve the future of the workplace.
“Human centered AI means to start with the user and first ask: What should AI do? In contrast to: What can it do? … so much of that [AI] The discussion is about models, technology and skills. We should start with the user and needs. “
Carignan also noticed that AI can help improve human productivity instead of replicating it.
“We are happy to talk about the complementarity of humans and thinking about workflows in which a AI can take the work of work away and enable people to deliver things that can only do one person: creativity, innovation, coalition structure, inspiration, motivation of others.”
Guy Diedrich, Global Innovation Officer at Cisco
Guy Diedrich, SVP and Global Innovation Officer at Ciscodiscussed the importance of AI companies that give confidence in the room.
“Trust is fundamental to us in the future … You will not receive any access to data [for AI] Unless you trust, and the way you trust in our industry is to offer security and be transparent. “
Dieutrich also discussed how the increase in a company must be agile in order to keep up with the quick innovation of the AI.
“At the moment we are in the AI microal or in the AI moment. In the next few years, AI will be embedded in everything. We will take it for granted,” he said. “Be ready to be at the speed of innovation. Otherwise your employees will never be as productive as you could be.”
Ganesha Rasiah, Chief Strategy Officer at HP
Ganesha Rasiah, Chief Strategy Officer at HP.
Ganesha Rasiah, Chief Strategy Officer at HP, told Converge Live about the effects that AI could have on the labor market.
“Certain jobs are eliminated. I think that is to be expected, but we don't see a world ahead in which there is a significantly increased level of unemployment,” he said.
Instead, the AI skills will be more accessible, there will be an explosion of demand and changes in the nature of the work, “he added. I see it as able to raise all boats.”
Kamal Bhatia, President and CEO, Principal Asset Management
Kamal Bhatia, President and CEO of Principal Asset Management, described the rise of Deepseek as “pretty amazing”.
“I would describe it as an innovation under adversity,” he said.
Investors can miss it if they believe that innovation only occurs when the capital exists, he added. “What the China experiment proves … is that you can actually expand innovation without capital,” he said. With “adversities you can actually skip”.
Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce
Marc Benioff, CEO of the Enterprise Software Giant Salesforce, has noticed the number of “Multi -100 -Milliarden -Dollar investments” in data centers in recent months because the hype has grown around the AI.
“I think what you have seen with Deepseek and Alibaba with your QWen model is that you don't need this type of technology. I think it has to be considered.
“You can also get involved in a group thinking in technology, and they can use them? Well, maybe you do it, but maybe not either.”
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