{"id":205429,"date":"2024-04-25T10:15:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T14:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ibkrcampus.com\/?p=205429"},"modified":"2024-04-26T04:10:54","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T08:10:54","slug":"theres-never-been-a-better-time-to-be-a-builder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.interactivebrokers.com\/campus\/traders-insight\/securities\/macro\/theres-never-been-a-better-time-to-be-a-builder\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThere\u2019s never been a better time to be a builder\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This was the message resoundingly emphasised to your author earlier this week. He was not standing on a construction site. Rather, he was one of around 10,000 people to attend Amazon\u2019s annual&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/events\/summits\/emea\/london\/\">AWS Summit<\/a>&nbsp;in London. With a vibe more like a musical festival (think pulsing music and strobe lights) than a tech conference, it was a wonderful opportunity&nbsp;<strong>to learn more about how AI is being practically deployed<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like asking butchers whether they endorse meat, everyone with whom we spoke at the Summit unsurprisingly evangelised about the potential of AI (and the cloud). We were told&nbsp;<strong>that accelerating AI usage could unlock over \u00a3500bn of economic value in the UK by 2030<\/strong>. We were not informed how this figure was calculated. AWS\u2019s Managing Director for the region went on to add that&nbsp;<strong>AI adoption by businesses in the UK had grown over 30% year-on-year<\/strong>&nbsp;with 9-out-of-10 businesses reporting efficiency gains from having deployed the technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the keynote presentation we heard from two businesses how they were benefiting from AI. TUI, the world\u2019s largest tour operator, highlighted how&nbsp;<strong>the technology had helped to reduce handling time in its call centres by more than 20%.<\/strong>&nbsp;Further implementation was allowing TUI to \u201credefine personalised travel experiences\u201d through customised content. Meanwhile Zilch, a fintech start-up, described how AI was benefiting its business in terms of enhancing fraud protection, credit underwriting, customer servicing and buyer-intent prediction.&nbsp;<strong>Some of its predictability metrics had improved by more than twofold post the use of AI tools<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Case studies such as these demonstrate why there has never been a better time to be a builder (of new software solutions, obviously), in the words of AWS\u2019s VP of Professional Services and Gen AI Innovation. She also asserted that&nbsp;<strong>AI would serve to \u201cremove barriers to innovation\u201d for all businesses<\/strong>. From our perspective, the intent is laudable, and it is encouraging to see that Amazon has already moved beyond offering its AWS customers just an infrastructure layer. It now also provides tools (or middleware) and applications. If we are, as AWS believes, \u201con the precipice of a tectonic change\u201d then expect the plates only to move slowly.&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>We do not expect the broad adoption of AI to be linear<\/strong>. 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