A Million Miles Away From Machine Learning - IT Jungle

The spring COMMON NAViGATE conference has not yet started, the IBM Think 2021 conference has just ended and so has Google I/O 2021, and only a month ago we participated in Nvidia's GPU Technical Conference 2021. A whole lotta things are rattling around in our brains, and we are still thinking about some of the things people have been saying about artificial intelligence, the instantiation of which based on machine learning techniques seems to work quite well but no one really knows, in the same way a COBOL or RPG program is absolutely deterministic, why it works. This is what happens when you let software write software – algorithms, really, for categorizing and transforming media formats that describe reality. This is just the first phase of AI, the one that IBM and its peers are still talking about. But there is a next-phase, an evolutionary jump that is coming, we think, and it will be an interesting one that will impact all IBM i shops and all of us on planet Earth as we live our lives. More than the relational database or the spreadsheet or the word processor or the Web browser or the iPhone ever did.