Within the next decade, I predict that IT departments will be almost entirely managed by autonomic expert systems.
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Autonomic systems would bear more of a resemblance to simple biological organisms than a fully fledged, HAL-style artificial intelligence.
Already, companies that implement autonomic expert systems are removing humans from 40 and up to 80 percent of IT processes.
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In medical terms it's defined as the deliberate induction of a dangerous condition common to quadriplegics called autonomic dysreflexia (AD).
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Autonomic computing systems wouldn't regulate themselves with one super-intelligent and aware mind.
Autonomic expert systems are also being used to help eliminate human error.
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The significant advantage that autonomic expert systems have over humans is that they behave consistently and always comply with the process rules they have learned.
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Autonomic systems wouldn't operate entirely outside the realm of human control.
They'd operate as the sum of many independent, relatively dumb processes--just like the autonomic functions of the human central nervous system, from which they take their name.
Clearly there is room for growth with these statistics and I think we will see an increase in the prevalence of autonomic expert systems over the next few years.
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Heart-rate variability, says Dr Stein, is a good index of the degree of control an individual has over his autonomic nervous system (which controls many of the internal organs).
But without some positive thinking to balance out the trials and tribulations of your daily life, stress hormones can accumulate leading to disorders of your autonomic nervous, hormonal, and immune systems.
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It is, however, a plausible hypothesis, and there is some evidence that their autonomic nervous systems (which control basic bodily functions such as heartbeat and body temperature) have not been working properly.
The learning process of autonomic expert systems is similar to how a child learns by observing its parents or how the human immune systems learn to fight infections based on vaccines and medication.
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"The complexity of IT systems is growing at a tremendous rate, to a point where it's becoming very difficult for administrators to manage their systems, " says Jeff Kephart , autonomic computing manager at IBM Research.
The term "autonomic computing" was popularized by IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people ) following a 2001 speech by Senior Vice President of Research Paul Horn to the National Academy of Engineers.
Unlike traditional automation, self-learning autonomic tools are able to understand and replicate complex decision making processes and behave in a similar way to the human cognitive process by constantly learning new ways of handling IT problems.
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Recent advancements in artificial intelligence birthed autonomic technologies, self-learning and self-managing machines which have become employed by large enterprises to oversee as much as 90% of IT tasks, thus signifying a turning point from machines as tools to machines as employees.
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