Daily Archives: May 7, 2019

State Auto taps RPA to cut costs — and transform its workforce

If someone told you could use software to shave labor costs by more than 30,000 hours per year without eliminating employees would you do it? Of course you would. State Auto Financial CIO and Chief Strategy Officer Greg Tacchetti is using robotic process automation (RPA) to reduce the time the insurance company’s staff spends manually…

AI is poised to radically transform software development

We are entering the age of what Tesla AI director Andrej Karpathy calls “Software 2.0,” where neural networks write the code and people’s main jobs are defining the tasks, collecting the data, and building the user interfaces. But not all tasks can be tackled by neural networks — at least, not yet — and traditional…