A Workforce Without Humans- Conference Session

[Ardbeg... innit]

Is this really the way we as a society, want to go?

A Workforce Without Humans: The Evolution of IT in Post-Human Industry

The long-run value proposition of IT is not to support the human workforce but to replace it. Virtualization will not simply transform the data center and the desktop, it will revolutionize the workforce. Outsourcing programs is not the next viable, lowest cost of labor market; it is the software and services marketplace with virtual assistant staffing and fully automated business process utilities.

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The *really* disturbing part is that it's from The Gartner Group!

[Ardbeg... innit]

Time to out-biologic the workforce

[Chicago Jake]

Pretty soon they'll just be using us for a power source.

[Ardbeg... innit]

[Chicago Jake]

I was thinking more like this......

[Ardbeg... innit]

And another development in the same lines... I really hope that when cyberlife appears, that the women have great bodies to look at.

Good morning Dave...

IBM's chip ‘senses’ events- Reacts like your brain

Big Blue has developed a computer chip inspired by the human brain that may predict tsunamis and highlight risks in financial markets. Dubbed cognitive computing, the chip is programmed to recognise patterns, make predictions and learn from mistake.

According to an IBM statement the chip is a sharp departure from traditional chip design concepts and it can synthesise events currently occurring and make decisions in real time. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense, IBM has received $21 million more in funding for the technology. The idea is now out of the conceptual phase and headed towards methods to find out how to bring the chips to scale for production.

Computers handle commands individually on a linear if/then basis, but the new chips “rewire themselves on the fly.” Without any set programming, the devices reach decisions in the same way that the brain uses synapses, neurons and axons. Cognitive computers may react to taste, touch, smells and sound while consuming less power and volume than today’s technology.

At the heart of the chip is 3.8 million transistors in a 4.2 millimeters square of silicon. Current chips using 2 billion transistors couldn’t perform similar tasks, he said, and they’d have to be 10 times as large.

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That would come in handy if it can predict that your software is going to crash or advise me not to upgrade the OS on that box.

[Ardbeg... innit]

It would obviously have to experience such an event once to learn the lesson. I wonder if cyber-Darwinism would come into effect here... the download that doesnt kill you makes you stronger, survival of the fittest.