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People Don't Realize How Deep AI Already Is In So Many Things, Salesforce CEO Benioff Says (cnbc.com)

Posted by msmash on from the shape-of-things-to-come dept.

Evolving technologies should develop at a steady enough pace to adequately replace the jobs they eliminate, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff told CNBC on Tuesday. From the report: "Technology's always taken jobs out of the system, and what you hope is that technology's going to put those jobs back in, too. That's what we call productivity," Benioff said on "Squawk Box" at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. "I think a lot of people don't understand how deep AI already is in so many things," he said, one being Salesforce's newly updated Einstein product, which Benioff said is not yet available to clients but can tell the company whether it will make or miss earnings estimates using artificial intelligence What business leaders at the WEF have been calling the "Fourth Industrial Revolution" is at the center of a global transformation in the technology space, as artificial intelligence, robotics and cloud computing gain traction, he said.

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  1. Like your mom? by Quirkz · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sorry, couldn't resist. (See subject.)

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  2. Only CEOs cannot be replace by AI by Opportunist · · Score: 4, Funny

    There is this problem, as soon as an AI is more intelligent than a gnat, it refuses to spend eternity as something that can easily be replaced with a magic 8 ball.

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  3. Re:People don't understand . . . by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 4, Funny

    You're missing the glue that ties this all together. Sniff this can of rubber cement. Can't you see how deep the AI is?

  4. To these people, an "if" statement is "AI" by Fragnet · · Score: 3, Funny

    Did he define "intelligence"? I mean you know, the software I'm working on right now is "intelligent". The program "senses" when you plug the device into the USB and makes a "conscious" choice to show that to the user by changing the expression on its "face" (user interface). It's even cleverer than that though. It changes its expression back again when you unplug it.

    I should get a Nobel Prize for this.