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Describe how AI could influence and change the day-to-day routines of IT and network support personnel over the next 5-10 years.
Topic Description: According to the National Science and Technology Council’s Committee on Technology report entitled Preparing for the Future of Artificial IntelligenceLinks to an external site.: “The current wave of progress and enthusiasm for AI began around 2010, driven by three factors that built upon each other: the availability of big data from sources including e-commerce, businesses, social media, science, and government; which provided raw material for dramatically improved machine learning approaches and algorithms; which in turn relied on the capabilities of more powerful computers…
Remarkable progress has been made on what is known as Narrow AI, which addresses specific application areas such as playing strategic games, language translation, self-driving vehicles, and image recognition. Narrow AI underpins many commercial services such as trip planning, shopper recommendation systems, and ad targeting, and is finding important applications in medical diagnosis, education, and scientific research” (Executive Office of the President National Science and Technology Council Committee on Technology, 2016).
