AI is playing an increasingly important role. The CEO of the German company SAP stated in an interview that keyboards will soon no longer be necessary. The voice input for AI is now so good that soon there will be no need for keyboards anymore.
The English-language magazine Fortune spoke with the CEO of the German software company SAP during the World Economic Forum in Davos. In the conversation, SAP CEO Christian Klein explained that keyboards are losing significance. Instead, language is becoming much more important. He said:
The end of the keyboard is near. The speech recognition of many of these large language models is extremely powerful. Now we need to work on translating speech into business language and business data.
Instead of large amounts of data, one would only need to explain to the AI via voice what exactly is needed.
Keyboard for data entry could become increasingly unimportant
The purely “data entry” via keyboard could, according to Christian Klein, lose significance more and more in the coming years. Voice input with AI is already functioning very well, but currently, there is still a lack of technical implementation. He went on to say:
The future will certainly look like that you no longer have to enter data information into an SAP system. Instead, you can ask specific analytical questions with your voice. You can trigger operational task workflows. You can also make entries in the system with your voice – performance feedback, pipeline entries, etc.
The technological possibilities are there; now it is really just about the implementation.
From his perspective, AI can therefore be excellently integrated into professional everyday life with language and used meaningfully.
Microsoft CEO Nadella also advocated that AI must be used for something useful. Otherwise, one would lose the support of the broad masses if energy and resources were wasted on nonsense.
AI should create new jobs. But instead, AI is currently causing more jobs to be cut than have been in years. The layoffs are at their highest in many years and remind of the financial crisis of 2008. Because a similar high was noted for layoffs: AI was supposed to create many new jobs: instead, 1.2 million people became unemployed
