Tom Davenport

6 statements across 1 episodes · 3 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Tom Davenport · across every show →

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Jan 2, 2019 negative
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Davenport: Pure corporate automation triggers a race to the bottom in margins
“Pursuing automation tends to be kind of a race to the bottom in many ways. It sort of lowers everybody's cost, but it also lowers everybody's margins, and everybody ends up doing kind of similar, not so innovative things”
Tom Davenport Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 24:11 a16z Podcast | Automation, Jobs, & the Future of Work (and Income)
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
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Davenport: Automation will bring outsourced corporate work back in-house
“Well, we believe that organizations will continue to Exist and in fact may bring more of their work back in house than they have had over the past couple of decades that automation may take back a fair amount of the work that was distributed through outsourcin…”
Tom Davenport Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 23:40 a16z Podcast | Automation, Jobs, & the Future of Work (and Income)
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
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Davenport: AI interest and corporate adoption hit an all-time high
“As you suggest, we've gone through various cycles in this space, and this is probably the most spring-like spring we've ever had in the sense of interest in the technology, the number of firms that are adopting it.”
Tom Davenport Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 0:54 a16z Podcast | Automation, Jobs, & the Future of Work (and Income)
Jan 2, 2019
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Tom Davenport: Humans will prefer human-created art and humor over AI
“I think at some point there will probably be just a human preference for human created art and humor and so on, just because it's human.”
Tom Davenport Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 15:43 a16z Podcast | Automation, Jobs, & the Future of Work (and Income)
Jan 2, 2019
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Davenport: AI will struggle to read human psychological cues like bluffing
“The whole thing about looking in your opponent's eyes and figuring out whether they're bluffing or not. I think that's going to be tough for machine to do for a while.”
Tom Davenport Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 17:19 a16z Podcast | Automation, Jobs, & the Future of Work (and Income)
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
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Davenport: Almost every tech vendor will add cognitive AI capabilities
“You know, big companies like IBM are hiring thousands of people to do this, and I think there's every reason to expect that as these technologies take hold, almost every vendor will have some level of cognitive capabilities, and a lot of people will need to be…”
Tom Davenport Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 10:33 a16z Podcast | Automation, Jobs, & the Future of Work (and Income)
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