AI 2024Outlook
A live online briefing for the Raion founders community: Microsoft and Accenture on what artificial intelligence would mean for business in 2024, followed by open Q&A and virtual networking tables.
Two talks, one question: what does AI mean for your company in 2024?
Raion opened its year with a working session, not a webinar. Marcus Vinicius Martinez brought the Microsoft perspective on the generative AI platform shift, Surya Mukherjee brought Accenture’s research on disruption and reinvention, and the founders in the room brought the questions. Cameras on, hands up, interruptions welcome.
Marcus Vinicius Martinez
Advisor to tier-1 financial institutions on cloud and generative AI, speaking on what the platform shift means for business, workforces, and regulation.
Surya Mukherjee
Head of Technology Research for Europe at Accenture, connecting emerging technology to business problems, fresh from CES and Davos with the year’s key trend reports.
The Future of AI in 2024
- M-1The third platform shift: desktop to mobile, on-premise to cloud, and now code to natural language.
- M-2Traditional AI for rules and quantitative analysis; generative AI for judgment, novel problems, and content.
- M-3Adoption paths from general-purpose models to configured and custom builds, and what each really costs.
- M-4Synthetic data on course to overshadow real data by 2030, and why data architecture matters now.
- M-5The AI flywheel: a technology that rewards early movers with compounding advantage.
- M-6Augmentation over replacement: knowledge workers amplified, process work automated.
Trends for a Year of Reinvention
- A-1An era of permacrisis: disruption up sharply, with reinvention becoming the default strategy.
- A-2Accenture's Pulse of Change: technology climbed from the sixth-ranked force of disruption to the first.
- A-3Cloud approaching a trillion-dollar annual market; generative AI headed past $140B by 2027.
- A-4Technology Vision trends: a new relationship with knowledge, autonomous AI agents, and fused realities.
- A-5Life Trends: the great interface shift, the risk of machine-made mediocrity, and changing life goals.
How do you address garbage in, garbage out when working with generative AI?
Responsible AI tooling: transparency on how a decision was reached, and measurable metrics for bias, noise, and quality built into the platform.
What will regulate AI companies to justify decisions?
Outcome-based regulation: using AI to decide is not the issue, being unable to deconstruct the criteria behind the decision is. And AI is already held to a far higher standard than people.
Microsoft
Accenture
DigitalOceanDigitalOcean backed the community through its Hatch startup program, including $10,000 in cloud credits for founders, and Mozart Data brought a dedicated offer on startup data infrastructure. Both teams hosted networking tables after the talks.
The AI 2024 Outlook
A complimentary ebook co-authored by the speakers accompanied the session, and every attendee received a copy. This was also Raion’s last open event: from February 2024 the community moved to application only.
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