Is your business AI-ready?

In a poem first published in 1967, Richard Brautigan imagined a world in which people were freed of all their labors and reunited with nature in a world "all watched over by machines of loving grace." In different words, this theme was a hot topic for attendees and presenters at the recent Dell EMC World conference in Las Vegas. Not so much about machines of loving grace, but it seemed that everywhere you went people were talking about machine learning and artificial intelligence, and what this new era means for all of us. In a "Guru Session," Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, explored some of the implications of the rise of AI, including the notion of machines taking over jobs long held by humans. He noted that there are many mundane jobs that humans really shouldn't be doing.