AI applications demonstrated include video generation, completing Beethoven's 10th Symphony, building winning sports teams, and transforming finance. A panel on the future of work featured Microsoft's chief scientist Jaime Teevan and Accenture's chief AI officer Lan Guan. Teevan said companies respond to disruption by driving efficiencies or pursuing innovation, with innovation offering the greater opportunity. Guan said humans should focus on communication, empathy, analytical thinking, and structured thinking because AI does not perform those cognitive skills well yet. Palantir's UK defense lead Guy Williams described computer vision enabling second-scale analysis of multi-kilometer imagery that formerly took analysts hours.
There are pretty much two ways that companies deal with disruptions. One is to drive efficiencies-to get really good at what they are doing. And the other is innovation-to figure out how to do new things. We are essentially seeing both of those. The efficiency thing is easier. But innovation is the real opportunity.
It's my personal belief that skills that humans are really good at-things like communication skills, being empathetic, doing analytical thinking, structured thinking-these are the cognitive skills that AI is not doing quite well yet. So I think we need to have humans focus on these kinds of skills in their daily job.
With the introduction of computer vision, we are able to take a two kilometer by five kilometer image and, within a second, identify all of the things you might be interested in, whether it is changed, whether there's something that you recognize. Historically, that might have taken an analyst hours to get to that point.
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