Machine learning is about to change how corporations are run ExtremeTech

So, DeepMind's basic approach can be quickly and effectively adapted to the temperature of air currents around a data center, and the flow of heat through air vents -- what else could it improve? The flow of air through physical space is far better understood than, say, the flow of shipments through major ports, or of bee populations across a continent, or of students through university programs. We should expect that assigning a sufficiently insightful AI to find and eliminate inefficiencies in cargo routing, or field-pollinating, or graduate-producing, will produce more than a few percentage points of progress. The need for warehouse managers, public agricultural engineers, and academic advisers is about to plummet right alongside the more traditionally threatened sectors like customer service and manufacturing.