Will Someone?
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One of the more interesting news items that crossed my desk – or my desktop, as in Mate, since loose papers don't really fly through my office like they used to, was a quote from Hewlett-Packard Enterprise's CEO Meg Whitman, "AI and robots? Will someone think of the jobs?"
Dear Reader,
One of the more interesting news items that crossed my desk – or my desktop, as in Mate, since loose papers don't really fly through my office like they used to, was a quote from Hewlett-Packard Enterprise's CEO Meg Whitman, "AI and robots? Will someone think of the jobs?"
The quote came from a speech Whitman gave at the World Economic Forum in Davos Klosters, Switzerland. I wish I could find a full transcript of the speech, but so far it doesn't seem to be out there. Lots of videos are available at the World Economic Forum website [2] – and probably more will be there by the time you read this – so if you look around enough, you might run across it.
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