AI & Software Quality Review — Friday, February 10, 2017
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Eight Questions Before You Invest in Test Automation
“Should we automate our mobile app testing?” Simple question, right? But implementing rigorous testing comes at a cost. Jason Arbon of Appdiff describes a few quick questions you should ask before you decide to automate.
About The Creators
Cafe X Technologies launches its new San Francisco cafe in “Robots Make Cappuccinos At This New San Francisco Cafe”
Northwestern researchers describe their AI system that performs as well as humans on standard intelligence tests in “Making A.I. Systems that See the World as Humans Do”
MIT Technology Review describes how Goldman Sachs is replacing traders with engineers in “As Goldman Embraces Automation, Even the Masters of the Universe Are Threatened”
“Goldman Sachs…has found consistently that four traders can be replaced by one computer engineer.”
TechCrunch profiles a new banking startup that uses chatbots for customer support in “Revolut launches current accounts and a chatbot”
Bloomberg pulls the curtains back on the AI-driven trading firm Sentient Technologies in “Silicon Valley Hedge Fund Takes On Wall Street With AI Trader”
About The Industry
Deloitte described the biggest trends in IT, especially the rise of machine intelligence, in “Tech Trends 2017: The Kinetic Enterprise”
A confluence of three powerful forces is driving the machine intelligence trend:
1. Exponential data growth
2. Faster distributed systems
3. Smarter algorithms
Forrester Research published a report on ways that AI will impact software testing and development in “How AI Will Change Software Development and Applications”
StickyMinds discusses the age-old question about how to measure SDLC productivity in “The Problem with Software Measurement and Metrics”
SD Times discusses a mobile app user experience report by ArcTouch that “finds enterprise mobile apps are ‘functional but unfriendly’”
Oxford University researchers estimate that 35% of jobs in the UK could be replaced by automation in “Robots March on ‘Safe’ Jobs of Middle Class”
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