80% of IT Jobs can be Replaced by Automation, and it's 'Exciting'

TAKING OVER IT
Amidst the anxious grumbling of his audience at last week’s Structure Conference in San Francisco, billionaire Vinod Khosla expressed that 80% of jobs in an IT department could be replaced by AI-type systems. “I think that’s exciting,” added Khosla, founder of Sun Microsystems and Silicon Valley venture firm, Khosla Ventures.
Speaking to an audience of mostly CIOs and other tech executives, Khosla backed up his statement by citing examples of companies that are developing technology that would precisely automate the IT industry. He mentions Nutanix, a company Khosla Ventures invested on, which facilitates how computing infrastructure professionals automate the handling of networks between servers. He also mentions enterprise software startups like Mesosphere, which simplify the job of installing and maintaining software on servers

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