Enterprises Should Aspire For Harmonious Relations Between Software and Humans

“Becoming a software company is really hard,” said Vijay Gurbaxani, founding director of the Center for Digital Transformation at the University of California, Irvine. However, failing to become a software company could be detrimental to the outlook of any business. It’s important for enterprises to focus on making software work for their benefit, not against it, he said in the opening remarks at the Road to Reinvention conference. The wave of improvements in machine learning during the last few years have been amazing, but it’s also opening a new era of relations between humans and software that cannot be ignored, Gurbaxani explained. “New knowledge is no longer going to be restricted to humans conceiving of theories,” he said. It will be driven by machines and “it’s only a matter of time when machines can outthink humans. What do we do in a world where know-how is created by machines?”