Artificial Intelligence and the Future: Should We Worry About Our Data Jobs? - DATAVERSITY

Speaking at the DATAVERSITY Smart Data Online 2016 Conference, Adrian Bowles, industry analyst, recovering academic, and founder of STORM Insights, and Steve Ardire, Merchant of Light, both talked about the future of Artificial Intelligence (AI). They addressed the question: "Will robots take my job?" The short answer could be summarized as: "Maybe." Lower level jobs with easily improved productivity are likely candidates for automated replacements, says Bowles, but higher level positions with decision making capacity are more likely to have assistance from AI, rather than being replaced by it. Bowles talked about recently going through the stack of books he used early in his AI studies and discovering that "nowhere in these books is the key phrase'Machine Learning,' and yet today, that's sort of at the center of everything we're doing."