Nandan Nilekani says AI is changing the way Infosys functions, reveals big shift in work, workplace, and workforce
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Amid surging impact of the artificial intelligence, co-founder Nandan Nilekani while speaking at Infosys ' 44th AGM said that he has seen AI driving cultural and operational shifts across work, workplace, and workforce at the tech giant.Nilekani said Infosys, as a digital-native firm, sees AI driving cultural and operational shifts across work, workplace, and workforce. "As of today, we have over 2,75,000 employees who are trained in AI at different levels of proficiency. Over 20,000 of our employees are using GitHub for coding. We are also investing in adding more AI builders and AI masters," said Nilekani.'Look around us, there's a perfect storm of multiple colliding trends that is raging. Clearly the world is shifting from a single global market to fragmented blocks, forcing companies to make strategic choices and navigate between regions,' Nilekani said in a virtual address to the shareholders on Wednesday.He said that with bilateral and regional trade rules emerging as dominant forces, there is a clear need to accelerate supply chain diversification.While regulatory variances across regions present AI implementation complexities, Nilekani said that 'Legacy system modernisation and data architecture overhauls to ensure that all the firms' data as consumable AI are becoming increasingly unavoidable. Companies need both AI foundries for innovation and AI factories for scaling.'Recently, in rising cases of tech layoffs, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said the company will reduce its workforce in the coming years just as the two companies invest billions in artificial intelligence efforts. Recently, Bloomberg reported that after cutting 6,000 employees in May, tech giant Microsoft Corporation plans to layoff 'thousands' more jobs next month, particularly in sales. This comes as the company looks to 'trim its workforce' amid increased spending on artificial intelligence (AI), it added. The layoffs are expected to be across teams, with major hits likely among sales employees, sources told Bloomberg.
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