As in the past several years, Artificial Intelligence continues to be a hot topic at CES – even on virtual “show floor.” This being one area where the security industry is experiencing the same kind of buzz on a topic as in the consumer world, business leaders’ perspectives on the technology are certainly relevant.
Consumer Technology Association President and CEO Gary Shapiro spent a few minutes at CES with technology and business celebrity Mark Cuban to talk about a variety of topics, but his commentary on the state of AI was especially insightful. Here’s a transcript of Cuban’s advice:
“Everything starts with artificial intelligence, and I recommend to all entrepreneurs, all CEOs, and anybody in a management capacity and anybody in the technology industry – you have to understand the fundamentals of artificial intelligence. It is changing everything, and the challenge with it isn't just understanding it, but it is knowing how to apply it to your business.
I've been doing tutorials; I've been reading books…anything I can find that really updates me because artificial intelligence is going to change everything in the electronics industry. It has already begun to change it, but it is just going to accelerate.
Ambient voice – we all heard about Alexa, most of us have tried it or have one at home – and that's just going to continue to escalate, particularly now after COVID or during COVID, we want to be in a low-touch environment, so using our voice to initiate things is going to be big. We are starting to see it now in almost all of our consumer electronics devices, and now it is moving to our cars as well.
Understanding AI and seeing where that goes within your part of the consumer electronics industry is going to be huge. Not understanding at least the basics of it was like, back in the 80s and 90s when I first got started, and people said ‘I don't need to know anything about computers, I'll just use that typewriter over there’ or ‘I don't need to connect my computers together, I'll just carry my floppy.’ If you don't understand artificial intelligence basics, at least, you are going to be just like those folks and you are going to be left behind.”
