Sramana Mitra: The domain that I feel very bullish about is healthcare. There are vast swaths of the world that have no access to good healthcare. I think AI can turn that around. John Roese: Absolutely. In the mid 2000’s, I was the CTO of a company called Nortel in Canada. I was on the
Sramana Mitra: I wrote a series called Man and Superman. It makes a point that we’re going to a society where people who have the higher-order skillsets are going to thrive and everybody else is going to struggle. That gap is going to grow. The obvious question is how do you create more superman kind
Sramana Mitra: How big is this pool? John Roese: There’s an unfortunate statistic that we tracked from many years. The pool is not growing in terms of the total number of potential people who can do this work in many markets. In the United States, there were about two million professional computer scientists about 20
Sramana Mitra: I’ll just make one point. I agree with you that there is this whole category of invisible AI that is already prevalent in some domain. In cyber security and ad tech, that invisible AI is very much present already. There are a lot of functions that cannot be done without that kind of
John Roese: Not only do I think that there is a huge opportunity here for entrepreneurs to take a business process and apply machine learning, but there’s also a fantastic job market that once you do it, the people you sell it to are the IT people who are looking for relevance as they move
John Roese: I would argue that the other two types of AI are much more important even though they’re much less visible. In addition to AI to improve the human condition, the second domain that we think is probably significantly more important and probably more valuable is applying artificial intelligence to transform every single business
John provides a great synthesis of how the AI movement is evolving and where the long-term business building and wealth creation opportunities really are. Also, a great discussion on the jobs of the future. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as to Dell EMC and its work in the
Sramana Mitra: If you were starting a company today with AI, what kinds of open problems would you want to solve? Paul Daugherty: There’s a lot of areas that I’m actually really interested in. One of the issues that is a great one to solve with AI is around the identity issue. How do we