Business Chief APAC+ANZ Magazine August 2020 | Page 73

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73 “ COMPANIES ACROSS THAILAND , MALAYSIA , THE PHILIPPINES , AND INDONESIA COULD STAND TO SAVE ALMOST A COLLECTIVE $ 1TRN BY ADOPTING AI AND AUTOMATING THOSE PROCESSES ” towards a mindset that , if something can be automated , it should be .

This is a stance that ’ s not without its problems , of course , and in Asia the challenges of AI adoption are perhaps more stark than elsewhere . McKinsey Global Institute ’ s ( MGI ) ‘ Artificial Intelligence and Southeast Asia ’ s Future ’ report from 2017 cited earlier research which found that 50 % of work activities conducted across the Philippines , Thailand , Malaysia and Indonesia could be automated . This work , cumulative across the four
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