Salesforce will highlight tech’s hottest trend this year.
Salesforce is making a big statement about the hottest trend in tech at this year’s Dreamforce conference in San Francisco.
In an interview with The Examiner, Shih explained how ChatGPT “sparked the public’s imagination” about AI and how the trend helped offset the impact of the downturn which led to major layoffs at major tech companies, including Salesforce. This interview has been edited for clarity and brevity. How was the sudden popularity of ChatGPT discussed at Salesforce? ChatGPT helped educate the market. And it’s not just in enterprise software — my 80 year-old-neighbor uses ChatGPT for her knitting club. So it’s been really great. It’s really sparked the public’s imagination. It sparked an important set of debates around privacy, security and risks that come with generative AI.
Was that an issue at Salesforce? Was that something that some of your employees were doing and that you had to correct? I’m very proud that it has not been an issue at Salesforce. I mean, knock on wood, I think given that our No. 1 value as a company is trust, and our employee success team has done a fantastic job educating everybody in the company on the basics of AI. We’re moving fast, but trust is always front and center.
Salesforce went through a difficult period earlier this year with the layoffs. How did that disruption affect how you adapted to the AI trend? The entire tech industry, whether you’re a public company, or a private company, has had to go through this correction. The pandemic created this tech bubble, and we’ve had to go through a painful adjustment. I think the rise of AI and ChatGPT coinciding with that has actually been a great counteracting force.
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