Inside Telstra’s AI Charge
Australian Financial Review
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- Date Published
- 26 Feb 2024
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- 8 Mar 2025, 02:41 pm
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Telstra’s top tech exec says the company is halfway towards an ambitious AI plan, but admits it is the steepest technology learning curve it has ever faced.
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The article explores Telstra's ambitious strategy to integrate artificial intelligence across all its business processes, highlighting the significant challenges and transformative potential of this endeavor within a major Australian corporation. Telstra's move to become an 'AI-fuelled organization' by 2025 illustrates the growing focus on AI within large-scale corporate enterprises. Although the article touches on the technological innovation involved, it does not directly address potential existential risks associated with AI development. However, such advancements may influence discussions around AI governance and policy at both a national and global level. The company's substantial investment in AI signifies its importance in driving competitive advantage in the telecommunications sector.
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TechnologyAIPrint articlePaul SmithTechnology editorFeb 26, 2024 – 5.00amSaveLog inorSubscribeto save articleShareCopy linkCopiedEmailLinkedInTwitterFacebookCopy linkCopiedShare via...Gift this articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber?LoginTelstra’s top technology executive says the company is halfway towards an ambitious plan of improving all of its business processes with artificial intelligence, but admits it is the steepest technology learning curve it has ever faced.The telco’s chief executive Vicki Bradytold investors at its February half-yearly resultsit was trying to become an “AI-fuelled organisation,” and is halfway through moves to apply AI to all of its key processes. Its group executive for product and technology Kim Krogh Andersen said this will be completed by 2025.Loading...Paul Smithedits the technology coverage and has been a leading writer on the sector for 20 years. He covers big tech, business use of tech, the fast-growing Australian tech industry and start-ups, telecommunications and national innovation policy.Connect withPaulonTwitter.EmailPaulatpsmith@afr.comSaveLog inorSubscribeto save articleShareCopy linkCopiedEmailLinkedInTwitterFacebookCopy linkCopiedShare via...Gift this articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber?LoginLicense articleFollow the topics, people and companies that matter to you.Find out moreRead MoreAITelstra CorporationBusiness ITAFR ReportsFetching latest articlesOlympic weightlifting is hard. This boss uses the 1pc rule to get it doneLucy DeanOut-of-control watch price rises give housing a run for its moneyKnow your craft: How the biggest airlines rate at the pointy endJun Bei Liu: How I learnt to speak upSally Patten and Lap PhanThe four actor ‘tricks’ giving executives more confidence‘We’ll fight’: Alex Waislitz on family battles and bad betsA last-chance tote bag and a groovy case for trumpetersEugenie KellyThis machine can bring out the creative streak you never knew you hadThis data-driven wellness retreat is a haven for high-flyersBillionaire Nicola Forrest appoints UBank boss to run family officePrimrose RiordanVictor Smorgon’s star fundie eyes 50pc returns for new fundForrest family powerbroker had alleged role in big Fortescue decisions