Business Chief USA August 2020

TECHNOLOGY
AI & Manufacturing in Asia — Opportunities,
Challenges and Solutions: Microsoft Asia
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“BOTH SKILLED
AND LOW-SKILLED
ROLES ARE UNDER
PRESSURE AS AI’S
CAPABILITIES GROW
AT AN EVER
ACCELERATED RATE”
towards a mindset that, if something
can be automated, it should be.
This is a stance that’s not without
its problems, of course, and in Asia
the challenges of AI adoption are
perhaps more stark than elsewhere.
McKinsey Global Institute’s (MGI)
‘Artificial Intelligence and Southeast
Asia’s Future’ report from 2017 cited
earlier research which found that 50%
of work activities conducted across
the Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia
and Indonesia could be automated.
This work, cumulative across the four
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