AI: EMPOWERING INNOVATION
At Deloitte, artificial intelligence helps create AI-powered innovations.
Deloitte is committed to becoming a leader in AI-based services. This can help the organization fulfill its mission to positively impact the world by working with clients to help them transform key industries like healthcare, transportation, telecom, energy and beyond.
But this commitment shines a spotlight on the organization’s software engineers, which number in the thousands. It’s on them to write the code that underlies the solutions delivered to its clients. This can be rewarding work, but some aspects of coding are monotonous and can potentially lead to burnout.
To ease the burden, Deloitte’s developers are now using generative AI to help in their creation of AI-based innovations for clients. The technology is automating the more routine aspects of coding, freeing Deloitte’s people to spend time providing strategic services to its clients.
The AI handles “the things we always had to do that took up too much time and took us away from why we got into this craft,” says Deloitte Consulting LLP Chief Technology Officer Bill Briggs. This helps developers focus on “the things we care about, which is making a real impact with AI in the world.”
AI-powered coding not only reduces errors, it boosts productivity and speed while strengthening privacy and security.
In creating customer-facing tools — such as blueprints for AI-powered transformation of functions like smart manufacturing, consumer sentiment measurement, omni-channel customer care and personalized service — Deloitte’s developers use purpose-built, small language models trained on industry-specific data. These models align with Deloitte’s vertical approach to the market, which enables it to bring deep industry knowledge and insights to client engagements.
“The Fortune 500 has very unique competitive advantages, so they require tailored solutions,” says Dave Kuder, U.S. Consulting AI Insights & Engagement Market Offering Lead at Deloitte Consulting LLP.
Intel chips in
For the horsepower needed to efficiently run generative AI-based coding assistants, Deloitte equipped its engineers with laptops powered by Intel’s AI PC architecture.
The latest Intel® Core™ Ultra processors are purpose-built to support new and emerging AI applications. The chip uses three compute engines, the central processing unit (CPU), graphics processing unit (GPU) and neural processing unit (NPU), to run advanced AI workloads. With the CPU, GPU and NPU on a single platform, Intel Core Ultra is designed to enable faster processing times and more robust performance, power efficiency and security.
The Intel-based AI laptops are powerful enough to run models locally as opposed to through the cloud. This facilitates continuous service availability and enhances developer productivity, even when a developer is offline.
“Taking AI and making it embedded in the edge, where our business happens, where people work, is such an important part of not just getting us to where we want to be today, but it’s setting us up for where the future is going to take us,” says Briggs.
Intel’s AI PC architecture can help your organization thrive in the AI era.