{"id":725218,"date":"2023-10-17T10:12:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-17T08:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=725218"},"modified":"2023-10-17T10:12:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-17T08:12:00","slug":"lets-talk-ai-ey-africas-kavi-pather-explains-why-ai-innovation-is-vital-for-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/technology\/725218\/lets-talk-ai-ey-africas-kavi-pather-explains-why-ai-innovation-is-vital-for-businesses\/","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s Talk AI \u2013 EY Africa\u2019s Kavi Pather explains why AI innovation is vital for businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In this Let\u2019s Talk AI interview, Michael Avery meets with Kavi Pather \u2013 the Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Analytics Leader for EY Africa \u2013 to discuss the importance of AI innovation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pather holds a Master&#8217;s degree from Carnegie Mellon University and an Honours in Actuarial Science from Wits University \u2013 where he also lectured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2011, while lecturing Actuarial Science at Wits University, Pather joined EY as a Partner before becoming the Actuarial, Quants, and Data Science Leader for EY Africa in 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pather then took on his current position as Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Analytics Leader in 2021 \u2013 where he has been striving to build a better world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also recently adopted the position of Global Insurance Generative AI Coordinator for EY, and is a Fellow of the Faculty of Actuaries in the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Let\u2019s Talk AI interview<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>In this interview, Pather unpacks why AI innovation must be a priority for companies and highlights why it is different from other \u2018tech buzzwords\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He touches on how companies outside the tech industry can compete in the AI race and where they should be directing their AI innovation efforts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pather then details the strengths and weaknesses of AI, and provides several ground-breaking examples of recent AI applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He concludes by offering his insights into the future of AI and suggests whether a \u2018Terminator\u2019 outcome is possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Watch the full interview with Kavi Pather below.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/N3fnf0qM1sA?si=9cIqb4opxgh8EUrK\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kavi Pather is the Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Analytics Leader for EY Africa, and has deep insight into AI innovation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":725222,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9878],"tags":[7955,16804,18550],"class_list":["post-725218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-ey","tag-kavi-pather","tag-lets-talk-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=725218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":725224,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725218\/revisions\/725224"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/725222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}