AI is all anyone can talk about, whether it’s about the tech taking our precious jobs or what the future looks like with our robot overlords.
But is any of this true?
AI isn’t going anywhere anytime soon, so we decided to sit down with some technology leaders from digital communications company Cisco to ask the dumb questions about AI, so you don’t have to.
The first question I asked, which is on everybody’s mind is:
We often fear that robots are about to take over and do our jobs, but how true is that?
Ben Dawson, VP of Australia and NZ at Cisco, said we don’t need to worry about losing our jobs to AI. Phew!
He likens the rise of AI to that of the internet back in the 90s.
“I’m old enough to remember in the late ’90s, early 2000’s the dot com boom, the hype cycle and [the internet] was going to replace everyone’s …