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Keynote speaker Patrick Couch, AI Business Developer at HPE takes on the most hyped and cryptic tech topic of our time. He demystifies a technology that has achieved something server and storage could only dream of: Being a topic of dinner conversation. Is AI the best that has happened to us since sliced bread, or is it the beginning of the end? And what about self-driving vehicles and AI-butlers?
Hi Patrick Couch, who works as an AI Business Developer at HPE. What does someone like that do on the job?
– I’m out and about inspiring people to get interested in new technologies and talk about how to create value while avoiding common pitfalls. AI is a big and complex topic that gets a lot of media attention. My role as a business developer is to help people feel confident navigating this new landscape.
AI is talked about differently compared to other technologies. How does that affect us?
– It’s a bit special when a technology grabs the public’s attention. Nobody outside the IT world has ever talked about storage at a dinner party, but now people are lying in their hammocks listening to Max Tegmark’s talk in Sommar i P1. This means everyone has an opinion, but it also leaves many people feeling overwhelmed and stuck.
How do we get past that?
– The problem starts when we focus too much on the technology itself and think, “Oh no, we need a whole department just for generative AI.” People get paralyzed because they make it too big. The key is to shift the thinking from the technology itself to how it can help in our everyday work. How can we use AI to improve payroll processing, save time for civil engineers, or reduce waste in production?
Here’s the question everyone wants to know the answer to: When will we get self-driving cars and human-like robots?
– Well, at the risk of disappointing many, it’s not something that’s going to happen anytime soon, if at all. When it comes to cars in urban environments, it’s actually a really bad use case. The real world is full of surprises, and the more uncertainties there are, the harder it gets. Even if self-driving cars were safer than human drivers, we probably wouldn’t accept algorithms causing fatal accidents. However, self-driving vehicles in controlled environments, like warehouses or mines, are great use cases.
But what about an AI butler that scrubs the bathtub for me? Please say that’s happening soon!
– We tend to think that the human body is the ultimate form and have a habit of humanizing everything. But why would a machine that looks like us be the best solution for everything? Take the dishwasher, for example. It’s fantastic at washing dishes, but it looks nothing like us. So, the good news is: I absolutely believe you’ll have robots doing tasks for you, so you can focus on sailing, hiking, or whatever you enjoy. But I don’t think they’ll be made in our image.
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