Last week I had the opportunity to attend 6Degrees.Ai’s Brisbane event on The Future of Tech, Innovation & Work.
Despite not being technical by trade, here are my top takeaways from an event that was brilliantly put together.
1) AI should be boring… for now.
There is a lot of excitement around AI at the moment, understandably. The future in this space is so bright and the potential is huge. However, a Data and Analytics Customer Engineer at this event spoke about how most of the current practical applications of AI are fairly simple and focused on basic and repeatable tasks. At the moment, it is a tool to complement your other tools, not to replace them.
2) Australia is leading the way for AI... but we're also the most nervous
Interestingly, the Director of National Artificial Intelligence Centre spoke about how Australia is the most nervous towards AI than any other country. Despite this, we are still leading the way in various areas of AI applications, including in laboratory technologies and in livestock and horticulture.
3) Getting the data right
Data is foundation of AI, and every panellist at this event spoke about the importance of ensuring you are using relevant data. AI, by nature, learns from the information it is fed; therefore, any mistakes or wrong information it is fed can lead to “hallucinations”. Given how AI learns, this becomes a compounding problem and stresses the importance of protecting the data sources.
If you were in attendance or wanted to connect, please reach out, I'd love to hear what other thoughts are on this topic!