Automation brings along several benefits, but, as manual operations give way to logical machines and decisions and actions are taken without direct human involvement, a number of dangers arise. Most importantly, automation introduces new types of errors. These are errors which have not been encountered in the specific environment until now.
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Alexa controls the Cloud. Awesome, but…
I watched this video from Matt Dreyer's presentation in AWS re:Invent 2016, and then I saw "The Arrival", a film by Denis Villeneuve. In Matt's presentation, IT cloud infrastructure is controlled with natural language, as Alexa (an Amazon AI implementation) interprets the human speech to commands understood by the VMware cloud running on Amazon AWS. There are …