The pandemic brought about a change in the way people look at technology. 2021 proves to be the development of a new era of technology where AI is at the core.

According to McKinsey’s Global Survey on artificial intelligence (AI) 2020, organizations are using AI as a tool for generating value in the form of revenues. Some executives have even observed that implementing AI has brought about a change of 20% in the organizations’ earnings. The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the concept of ‘all things digital’, and these companies plan to invest more in AI. 

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Here are top quotes from AI leaders in 2021 that show us what the world of tech is to look like as we go ahead and what has been the view so far:

AI is technology’s most important priority, and healthcare is its most urgent application.

Satya Nadella, CEO, Microsoft.

It’s a trust; we work hard to gain privacy and security because one of the biggest risks to privacy is the data getting compromised too, so those two have been foundational investments for us. 

Sundar Pichai, CEO, Alphabet

Industrial AI needs a different recipe than Internet companies. It’s time to make cutting-edge AI fast and easy for anyone to use.

Andrew Ng, Founder & CEO, Landing AI

We’ve entered a new era of connected creativity that is deeply collaborative, and we imagine a world where everyone can participate in the creative process.

Scott Belsky, Chief Product Officer and Executive Vice President, Creative Cloud

I’m sorry to all my friends, but we’re not all going back …We have almost 75,000 people now … They’re not in their towers. We built these gorgeous towers. They’re mostly at home, and that’s fine.

Marc Benioff, CEO, Salesforce

AI-powered technologies will play an increasingly critical role in turning data into readily available, actionable information to fuel this new era.

Justin Hotard, SVP and general manager, HPC and Mission Critical Solutions (MCS), HPE

And let’s all remember, semiconductors, they power, not just computers. They power 5G, which we all look forward to; they power artificial intelligence, and they’re going to power quantum computing to put a point on what is coming down the road. 

Arvind Krishna, CEO, IBM

Intelligent automation can be an important asset in digital transformation, particularly as global enterprises adapt to a new reality of distributed work.

Mihir Shukla, CEO and Co-founder, Automation Anywhere.

In the next five or ten years, a lot of this is going to be mainstream, and a lot of us will be creating and inhabiting worlds that are just as detailed and convincing as this one on a daily basis.

Mark Zuckerberg, CEO, Meta

A handful of actually successful entrepreneurs could disrupt or destroy the self-help tape/seminar/etc industry. Most of these so-called experts, gurus, and coaches talk a lot and accomplish little. Imagine if their $1,000 ebooks had to compete with a free option from Bezos.

Palmer Luckey, Founder, Anduril