Thematic Strategy 3Q23: Artificial Intelligence
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Chief Investment Office30 Jun 2023
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What was once science fiction is now a tangible force shaping our world. The transformative power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is already augmenting the future across economic, political, social, and investment spheres. As it upends business models, it will leave winners and losers in its wake. 

The latest stage in AI development looks set to bring AI beyond the task-specific models that have previously dominated the landscape. For example, using foundation models that are trained on a broad set of unstructured data, generative AI models can perform multiple tasks beyond what they are explicitly trained to do, and even seemingly exhibit their own creativity – marking a great leap forward in AI advancement. To gauge how momentous this development is, one has to look no further than the speed at which ChatGPT took the world by storm, reaching a landmark one million users just five days after its launch. ChatGPT, alongside other generative AI prototypes, has gotten the world abuzz with the endless possibilities of how this technology can reshape human enterprise.

Figure 1: Facebook took nearly a year to do what ChatGPT achieved in one week


Source: Netflix, Meta, OpenAI, DBS

Beyond AI's rapid development, we also explore the following in this report:
  • The latest progress in AI development is transformative, with generative AI models performing multiple tasks, including seemingly creative ones
  • Cognitive AI is set to elevate technology’s potential to replicate humans to the next level
  • Big tech is investing heavily in AI-related acquisitions. Network effects and their wealth of resources suggest a “winner-takes-all” dynamic benefitting technology leaders
  • The need to process training data and power data centres will benefit chip designers and semiconductor foundries
  • Proliferation of deepfakes, misinformation and misuse of AI drives heavy demand for cybersecurity across all platforms
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