Former Infosys CEO Vishal Sikka is Building an AI Venture
May. 7, 2018After a dramatic exit form Infosys last year, Dr. Vishal Sikka, the company’s former CEO is reportedlybuilding an artificial intelligence companyaimed at increasing human creativity. Sikka disclosed this during his keynote at the TiE Inflect Conference in Silicon Valley.
Sikka revealed his plans whiletalking about employment opportunities in the field of artificial intelligence. During his address, Sikka also talked about how people aremistaken that AI will take their jobsand this notion is hindering its development. With old jobs being given up, new jobs will be created, he suggested.
Sikka announced that his venture was in its early stages, and is expected to disrupt the AI scape. He insisted that people must be informed about the potential the technology as the current workforce of only 250,000 will be inadequate in keeping up with thepace of AI’s development.Courtesy: Forbes India
A proud promoter of artificial intelligence and machine learning, Sikka led several AI-dependent projects at Infosys. Under his watch, Infosys embraced analytics, mobility, and AI. He alsoled the development of the artificially intelligent platform, Nia. “As I look at the future, I am personally extremely excited about doing something in that area (AI), something that fundamentally improves the world“, Sikka said at a conference earlier this year.
Sikka resigned from the position of CEO in August last year after thecontroversy around the acquisition of two companies– automation firm Panaya and e-commerce platform Skava. In the recent quarterly earnings call, Infosys listed the two ventures under impairment losses and put these up for sale.
Nia, however, will now beintegrated into all of Infosys’ offeringsas well as internal mechanisms. Even after Sikka’s departure, AI is one of the pillars of thesoftware giant’s business.
Sikka has previously talked about how AI will add context to the understanding of our roles as humans and help us invent solutions to next-generation problems while automation will take care of the mundane tasks.
