AI can fundamentally transform many work at Infosys: Sikka

Infosys looks at building intelligent software systems as well as use these for transforming various works at the organiation level, company CEO Vishal Sikka said today.
"In services like infrastructure management, business process outsourcing, and verification and maintenance of existing software, can massively migrate mechanizable work to automation, and instead build intelligent software systems, that amplify us, our abilities, as well as those of our customers," Sikka wrote in a blog.
On December 11, Infosys along with Sam Altman (Y Combinator), Greg Brockman (Stripe CTO), Musk, Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn), Jessica Livingston (Y Combinator), Peter Thiel, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and YC Research pledged USD 1 billion support for creation of non-profit artificial intelligence research company OpenAI.

Sikka quoted Marvin Minsky, one of the fathers of artificial intelligence (AI), who defined this field as "the science of making machines do things that would require intelligence if done by men".
"So a great transformation that we are undertaking at Infosys, is to embrace automation at a very large scale, so people can, as Prof Mashelkar once said, 'do more with less for more', and at the same time, educate ourselves in new areas to help build intelligent systems, but also to increasingly transform ourselves towards being innovators," Sikka said.
The Infosys CEO had earlier expressed interest in acquiring companies in areas like automation and artificial intelligence.

He said that workforce of 150,000 software engineers will be unique beneficiaries of AI and contributors to this endeavor.

"Most of our work is in building and maintaining software systems, and AI will increasingly shape the construction and evolution of intelligent software systems," Sikka said.
He said that OpenAI team will do unfettered research in the most important and relevant area of AI.
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The company has shown a stellar performance during the quarter despite traditional seasonality and Chennai floods.
Infosys said that North America accounted for 62.5 per cent of its revenues, while Europe and India contributed 23.2 per cent and 2.8 per cent, respectively. Rest of the World (RoW) region contributed 11.5 per cent to the quarter's revenues, it added.

During the quarter, Infosys added 75 (gross) clients taking the number of active clients to 1,045.
On the hiring front, the software giant added 5,407 people in the October-December 2015 quarter to take the total headcount to 1,93,383.