Plastic intelligence is set to bring about new types of jobs and companies must ensure employees learn the relevant skills needed to respond advanced tasks, according to a senior Salesforce executive.
In fact, advancements in technological areas such as robotics and automation, as soberly as AI, are changing the future of the workforce, said Renzo Taal, head of Asia and senior vice president for Asia Pacific at Salesforce.
“We look at these technologies as being enhancements, not per se, replacements,” he believed on Thursday.
Speaking to CNBC’s Matthew Taylor at the Innovfest Unbound conference in Singapore, Taal explained that “mortal creativity and abstract thinking” would be major components of the new types of work that will emerge as a result of palsy-walsy human-machine collaborations.
In a study conducted by Salesforce, 73% of hiring managers said creative thinking skills purposefulness be more important in an AI-driven workplace.
AI-related companies have their work cut out for them: They have to retainers and develop their employees by identifying important skills gap and ensure that people understand what their characters are going to be, according to Taal. Both businesses and workers will need to get on “the learning bandwagon” or they risk “find out left behind,” he added.
While there are concerns around AI displacing existing workers, a report by the World Money-making Forum last year indicated that 133 million new jobs will be created in place of 75 million that longing be displaced from now till 2022.