My talk at XConf NA on July 20, 2018

1. The Automated Workforce
How AI will change the Developer’s role in future
Vishal Bardoloi, Lead Consultant

3. How will AI disrupt
the developer’s role?

4. Source: 1978 IBM ad
(by Saatchi & Saatchi)

11. Source: https://x.ai/

12. Source: https://www.afiniti.com/

13. Source: Nature journal of science

14. Source: Quartz article

15. Source: GE Report

16. Source: https://firedrop.ai/
Source: https://scaledinference.com/

20. AI in < 30 seconds

21. Artificial
Narrow
Intelligence
Artificial
General
Intelligence
Artificial
Super
Intelligence

22. Artificial Narrow Intelligence (aka “Weak AI”)
Source: https://www.process.st/applications-of-ai/

23. “Sophisticated examples of weak AI”
● Focused on 1 narrow task
● Limited, pre-defined range of functions
● Could be dangerous
○ global economic problems (e.g. flash crash)
○ disruptions in electric grid
○ damage to nuclear power plants
○ misdirected autonomous vehicles

24. Democratized
Platforms

27. Source: “What it means to be an AI company” by StartupVentures

29. Garbage Data Perfect Model
Garbage
Result
Perfect Data
Garbage
Model
Good results still need human expertise!

30. Surfing the Wave of
Technological Progress

31. Dev
Data
Scientist
AI Ops?

32. 1. Building
useful models

33. Wanted: Functional domain experts

34. 2. Data Literacy

35. Understand how to work with data

36. Understand the limitations of your data

37. 3. Diversity of Ideas

40. 4. Ethics in AI

42. The
automated
augmented
workforce

43. THANKS

44. HASTA
LA
VISTA,
BABY