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Dear CIOs, I know most
you must be sick and tired by now of hearing all kinds of stories about
automate this or automate that, AI, machine learning, deep learning, etc., etc.
It is possible that
someone might come up with the idea of “Hey,
why not automate the CIO’s job itself?” After all, haven’t we all seen too
many threats to the CIO role already, even without automation?
So, here are a few
semi-serious reasons why you don’t have to worry about the CIO role
self-driving itself into an auto-pilot system:
- Because no AI system
can mouth words like “silos,” “vendor-neutral” and “scalability” with as much elan
as a CIO.
- In all likelihood,
it was a CIO who coined the very concept of automation; so the conceived cannot
possibly turn against its conceiver (and be successful in their machinations).
- Because you need
someone with real, rather than artificial, intelligence to control all those bots
out there.
- Think about it: if one
were to indeed automate what CIOs do, then who will complain about budgets
being tight or “doing more with less”!
- Because if CIOs get
a hang of the conspiracy to automate them out of the market, they will reset
the code execution time for the automation function to forever (or eternity,
whichever happens to be programmed into their software :)
- Because before
“they” can automate it (whoever this they
refers to), the CIOs would have reinvented their roles as CAOs (rhymes with
cows but otherwise of a different temper)—which stands for Chief Automation
Officers!
- And if none of the
above works, CIOs will convince the automatons to outsource the thinking part
to them and save precious battery resources for other artificial work!
IMHO, forget CIO, I personally
don’t think bots will truly replace human beings. They might take up the
tedious or repetitive work being done by an army of workers, but they are
highly unlikely to manage or motivate teams, lead people by example, inspire
trust or become an emotional wonder-pack that humans are.
Now, tell me bot do you think?
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