{"id":3881,"date":"2022-05-09T11:00:50","date_gmt":"2022-05-09T15:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chrisgrundemann.com\/?post_type=avada_portfolio&#038;p=3881"},"modified":"2022-05-09T11:00:50","modified_gmt":"2022-05-09T15:00:50","slug":"ai-skeptic-or-enthusiast-why-not-both","status":"publish","type":"avada_portfolio","link":"https:\/\/chrisgrundemann.com\/index.php\/portfolio\/ai-skeptic-or-enthusiast-why-not-both\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Skeptic or Enthusiast? Why Not Both?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1372.8px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:20px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.juniper.net\/us\/en\/research-topics\/what-is-ai-for-networking.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Artificial Intelligence<\/a>\u00a0(AI) has been identified as a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ida.org\/research-and-publications\/publications\/all\/m\/me\/megatrend-issues-in-artificial-intelligence-and-autonomous-systems\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">21<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0century \u201cmegatrend\u201d<\/a>\u00a0by influential voices across all industries and sectors. Yet, simultaneously, AI has been touted as both a panacea to virtually any problem in any field, as well as the source of humankind\u2019s demise. \u201cAI will push us to boundless innovation,\u201d \u201cAI will go rogue,\u201d \u2013 across the industry, there remains a mix of skepticism and fear on how AI will specifically impact us as individuals. This is especially true in the IT industry, where practitioners and technology partners worry about how their jobs will be affected by an AI-dominated future. Given the uncertain, ambiguous and often inflated claims seen in AI marketing, this trepidation is understandable. In fact, with any new technology, some skepticism is healthy. The advent of every new technology brings a natural progression through the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gartner.com\/en\/marketing\/research\/hype-cycle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0hype cycle<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div><div style=\"text-align:center;\"><a class=\"fusion-button button-flat fusion-button-default-size button-default fusion-button-default button-1 fusion-button-default-span fusion-button-default-type\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.juniper.net\/en-us\/enterprise-cloud-and-transformation\/ai-skeptic-or-enthusiast-why-not-both\"><span class=\"fusion-button-text awb-button__text awb-button__text--default\">Keep Reading<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":4261,"featured_media":3882,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"portfolio_category":[981],"portfolio_skills":[989],"portfolio_tags":[1004,1049,1107],"class_list":["post-3881","avada_portfolio","type-avada_portfolio","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","portfolio_category-content-creation","portfolio_skills-blogging","portfolio_tags-ai","portfolio_tags-artificial-intelligence","portfolio_tags-juniper"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>AI Skeptic or Enthusiast? 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