{"id":31456,"date":"2017-09-07T03:15:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-07T03:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/4121976"},"modified":"2017-09-07T03:15:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-07T03:15:00","slug":"the-future-of-automation-devopssummit-ai-ml-dx-devops-digitaltransformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/the-future-of-automation-devopssummit-ai-ml-dx-devops-digitaltransformation\/","title":{"rendered":"The Future of Automation | @DevOpsSummit #AI #ML #DX #DevOps #DigitalTransformation"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’ve all read the dystopian fiction, watched those apocalyptic movies and heard a myriad of prophetic warnings heralding our obsolescence. Surely now we’re just a couple of years from flipping the switch on a Skynet of our own making and condemning mankind to the annals of history.
\nActually, we’re not entirely sure what the future holds, but it’s probably not fire and brimstone. For detractors and naysayers of technology, could there be a more fitting image than Terminator 2’s opening shot? A hulking, skeletal, humanoid machine crushing a human skull beneath its foot. Listening to \u2018techno-skeptics’ can sure make it feel as though that’s the end which inevitably awaits us. If we continue down our current path of imbuing machines with increasing levels of autonomy, learning abilities and artificial intelligence, eventually we’ll inadvertently construct our own obsolescence – if not destruction! We must be careful, unless we want to find ourselves subjugated by a machine army…<\/p>\n

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We’ve all read the dystopian fiction, watched those apocalyptic movies and heard a myriad of prophetic warnings heralding our obsolescence. Surely now we’re just a couple of years from flipping the switch on a Skynet of our own making and condemning mankind to the annals of history.
\nActually, we’re not entirely sure what the future holds, but it’s probably not fire and brimstone. For detractors and naysayers of technology, could there be a more fitting image than Terminator 2’s opening shot? A hulking, skeletal, humanoid machine crushing a human skull beneath its foot. Listening to ‘techno-skeptics’ can sure make it feel as though that’s the end which inevitably awaits us. If we continue down our current path of imbuing machines with increasing levels of autonomy, learning abilities and artificial intelligence, eventually we’ll inadvertently construct our own obsolescence – if not destruction! We must be careful, unless we want to find ourselves subjugated by a machine army…<\/p>\n

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