which can automate tasks from filling spreadsheets to preparing e-mails, itineraries and CEO speeches. It even writes code.
The rise of AI brings in tandem more demand for personalised, seamless omnichannel experiences by customers, said Simon Dale, managing director at Adobe for South-east Asia and Korea. Gina Wong, managing director of IT consultancy Kyndryl Singapore, said that as companies focus on scaling up and integrating AI into operations, “the role of AI and machine learning engineers will become mainstream”.
Many companies have not mapped out how they will tap AI’s abilities, much less the kind of workers or skills needed, but Budhrani said she expects that machine learning, data modelling and Python programming experience will be demanded of such roles.