Companies want to hear that AI will automate all the things and therefore, it’s going to be So Easy. But unfortunately, we have the Iron Law of Life:
YOLO = GIGO
It’s worth turning, once again, to the history of car manufacturing and particularly, the transition from custom-built cars to mass production on an assembly line. (Note: Tony Self wrote about this back in 2012!)
We have a couple of truisms in automation. One is the idea of 10x productivity. Basically, when you automate, you get 10 times the productivity of when you do things by hand.