Dr. Fei Yu Xu | Generative AI for Industries | Rise of AI Conference 2023

Dr. Fei Yu Xu

Discover how generative AI is revolutionizing industries, automating business processes, and empowering companies like SAP to become sustainable, intelligent, and networked enterprises.

Key takeaways
  • Generative AI can be used to create test scripts and code documentation, as well as support employee HR queries.
  • The Hamburg Port Authority is an example of a company using generative AI to automate its business processes.
  • SAP is a pioneer in European Union AI development and has defined AI guiding principles and a global AI ethics policy.
  • The company has a broad portfolio of business applications and is committed to supporting every customer to become a networked, intelligent, and sustainable enterprise.
  • Artificial intelligence is part of the product and is needed for manufacturing companies, creative industries, and others.
  • Generative AI can help companies with sustainability, supply chain resilience, and product development.
  • Europe must not miss the paradigm shift in AI development, and SAP is committed to its European large language model initiative.
  • Design-to-operate and infusing structured data into language models are important concepts in AI development.
  • SAP is partnering with other companies to embed foundational models into business applications and is focused on building AI into its business applications.
  • The company is also engaging in ethical AI development and has established its own ethical AI guidelines in 2018.
  • Generative AI has disrupted the AI conversation and is making it exciting for companies like SAP to adopt it.
  • The company is committed to upskilling teams and staff to work with generative AI and is leveraging large language models to improve its portfolio of business applications.
  • SAP is also working on adaptability and innovation, including infusing structured data into language models to enable prediction and planning.
  • The company is using generative AI to simplify business processes and enable low-touch, no-touch applications.