4 things to know about artificial intelligence

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14th Jun 2019

Artificial intelligence is an area that holds both a fascination and an element of terror.

Fascination with what is possible but terror because it’s the unknown. At Vogue Codes Sydney Summit today, three impressive female leaders in this area — Caroline O’Brien, vice president of data science at Afiniti, Rachael Rekart, vice president of customer success at Soul Machines, and Samantha Wong, partner at Blackbird Ventures — held a panel discussion to decode and demystify AI. Read on for four things to know about artificial intelligence.

AI is being used in fashion
Caroline O’Brien, vice president of data science Afiniti: “Amazon’s fashion lab has machines creating new fashion. That’s right, machine fashion designers.”

AI find tasks humans find hard, easy and vice versa
Samantha Wong, partner Blackbird Ventures: “Machines are better at things that humans find really difficult. But they can’t do simple things, like pick things up. For example, in finance, trading is now largely algorithmic. Creativity is harder to do away with.”

AI requires teamwork
Caroline O’Brien, vice president of data science Afiniti: “At university the guys were really good at fixing cars, I was really good at maths and together we could create really amazing things. AI requires working in a team.”

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AI are moving towards reading human emotion better than humans
Rachael Rekart, vice president of customer success at Soul Machines on pioneering digital humans. “Our digital humans are hyper-realistic. They’re really perceived as more engaging, more effective, not only because of AI and emotional intelligence but also voice, video, text, image in one interaction. For example, if I text my boyfriend that ‘I’m fine’ he doesn’t know if I’m really fine without my inflection.”