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SOFTWARE, DATA AND SERVICES

Areas in which AI could reign data sets to identify patterns and trends. They are reporting real-time insights and
supreme can even predict, in some cases, what’s likely to happen next.
Forget about robots on the • Influencers: Some of the biggest social-media influencers aren’t human - they are
assembly line as the typical agent AI-designed models.
of job displacement, AI has made • Lip-reading: While the average human accurately lip-reads 54% of the time, a deep
advances in fields that many people network created by Oxford and Google DeepMind scientists, LipNet, reached a
never imagined were vulnerable to 93%success score in reading people’s lips.
automation: • Creating AIs: Given the ability AI has to quickly process large data sets, it’s able to
• Healthcare: Machine-learning create child AI applications that outperform human-created AIs.
algorithms can diagnose some • Listening: Whether it’s adding items to your shopping list, or producing meeting
types of cancer or perform minutes from our Zoom calls, AI applications can more accurately capture and
common X-rays with better process what they hear than many humans.
accuracy than human radiologists.
Other AI applications are in the Future-proof your career
works that can detect illnesses For individuals to protect themselves from being replaced by AI and robots they need
ranging from cancers to Parkinson’s to understand that every job as it exists today can, in some way, be automated.
disease, from smelling human But the good news is that human creativity and resolve is at an all-time premium.
breath. And it’s not limited to big “C” creatives.
• Creative work: AI can compose Now is the time to build on the roles and capabilities that can be automated to
music, write prose, build video- deliver new value at every level. Upskilling is now for everyone. Creativity, empathy,
game levels, and write newspaper critical thinking, collaboration, data science, resilience, adaptability, and other “not-so-
articles that are indistinguishable soft” skills are ranked as critical for everyone in a pandemic world and beyond.
from human output. As AI drives down the price of goods and automated services, it also increases the
• Coding: Low-code or no-code value of human goods and human experiences. The best way to differentiate yourself
development platforms take the is through your humanity and creativity, not your productivity. Accentuate the human
complexity out of coding. labour involved in what you do or what you make - whether it’s making a ceramic
• Analysis/pattern recognition: AI bowl, providing customer service, selling a technology product, or how you show up in
and machine learning are analysing any given moment to be present, aware and ready to participate.

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