Red Hat and IBM Research Advance IT Automation with AI-Powered Capabilities for Ansible

Red Hat, the world's leading provider of open source solutions, and IBM Research announced Project Wisdom, the first community project to create an intelligent, natural language processing capability for Ansible and the IT automation industry. Using an artificial intelligence (AI) model, the project aims to boost the productivity of IT automation developers and make IT automation more achievable and understandable for diverse IT professionals with varied skills and backgrounds. According to a 2021 IDC prediction1, "by 2026, 85% of enterprises will combine human expertise with AI, ML, NLP, and pattern recognition to augment foresight across the organization, making workers 25% more productive and effective. Technologies such as machine learning, deep learning, natural language processing, pattern recognition, and knowledge graphs are producing increasingly accurate and context-aware insights, predictions, and recommendations." Project Wisdom – underpinned by AI foundation models derived from IBM's AI for Code efforts – works by enabling a user to input a command as a straightforward English sentence.