Looking into the future of IT: Will AI rule the world? - IBM IT Infrastructure Blog

In the first part of this "future of IT" series, I posed the question: What will IT look like a decade from now? To begin the conversation, I outlined the three major segments of IT -- procedural IT, statistical IT and machine learning IT -- noting that machine learning will see the most growth in the next ten years. Breakthroughs in machine learning are already finding applications in numerous industries, and software houses are increasingly staffed with data scientists for that purpose. But there's more to pay attention to in the future of IT. Neural processing demands a huge amount of parallelism but relatively low performance for each of the parallel "threads" in the execution phase.