The Artificial Intelligence – Are You Ready? Conference was recently organised by SMU’s School of Information Systems on 6 April 2018. The panel moderated by SMU Vice Provost (Research) and Professor of Information System (Practice) Steven Miller also comprised Laurence Liew, Director, AI Industry Innovation at AI Singapore; Joon-Seong Lee, Managing Director, Accenture Applied Intelligence, ASEAN Lead; Srikiran Raghavan, Head of APAC, Marketing Partners Program at Facebook and Dr Jagannadan Varadarajan, Data Science Lead (Machine Learning) at Grab.
According to Prof Miller, technological advances will inevitably result in both job displacement and job creation but the longer term benefits such as lower prices and creation of new jobs and industries will help to counteract such negative impacts. “Our imperative is not only to use the new AI technology, but to use it well enough so we are sure to achieve the productivity gains and the creation of new services necessary to realise new jobs and economic growth,” Prof Miller exhorted the audience.
Launched in 2007, the Master of IT in Business (MITB) programme is a professional education programme that equips graduates to apply deep technology to the world of business. The programme’s new Artificial Intelligence Track, now open for applications till 31st May 2018 for the August 2018 intake, is the first of its kind in Southeast Asia, and takes an integrated approach towards melding AI methodologies into business domains.