Quantum, AI turns computing into a ‘loaded gun’
Biggest-ever DevConf opens with warning on ethics in new world of computing
Quantum computing and AI and machine learning are dramatically changing the face of computing, presenting the risk of a range of unintended consequences.
This is according to Cliff de Wit, former chief innovation officer at Microsoft and now the CTO and co-founder of Metrofile group’s Dexterity Digital, who was addressing the opening of the annual DevConf developers’ conference in Johannesburg this week.
De Wit said developers had moved from using low level building blocks to composition tools and high end platforms, quantum computing was fundamentally changing computing, and AI and machine learning were reversing traditional programming models. “Machine learning starts with a model, you feed in a sample output and...