Tweet theft: How AI will make you unemployed, even if you retrain as a data scientist

All the past week or two's best tech tweets stolen to order

Robots and artificial intelligence are increasingly becoming a common fixture of mainstream news and comment (ie: nonsense). But just as in pretty much every decade from the industrial revolution onwards about almost every substantial technology development, people are concerned that it will cause mass unemployment.

But will it really? This demonstrates exactly what intelligent, carbon-based life-forms are up against:

If your 'plan B' is to get a job shuffling paper clips about in the public sector, then you may also be out of luck.

Although that does rely on the implementation actually working, rather than going all Robo-cop.

Data science may well be off the agenda as well, though, unless you move to San Francisco, according to Parag Bhatnagar.

In any case, Taylor Swift herself has declared artificial intelligence overhyped, and who are we to disagree with the multi-talented artiste?

Case closed.

So what about a common-or-garden career in IT? These days, you can easily teach yourself - check out YouTube, subscribe to Lynda.com or just get a book out of the library...

— Greg Meyers (@gregmeyersCIO) January 18, 2017

Okay, scratch that. But at least we're not as stupid as these guys:

Anyway, with Computing's DevOps Summit coming up in March - which is free to all qualifying IT leaders, by the way (hint, hint) - it seems like a good time to bring this old favourite out, once again:

And finally, graphically illustrating the difficulty of setting appropriate targets...

Computing's popular DevOps Summit does, indeed, return in March. And attendence is free to qualifying IT leaders and senior IT pros. Check out Computing's events website for the agenda and to reserve your place.