AI Taking Over Automation? What Editors Saw at the Big Automate Show

Hey, have you heard that this AI thing is a big deal? That companies are slapping AI labels on every product they sell? That our benevolent robot overlords will favor those humans who speak highly of them now before they take over? 

There was a lot of talk about that at Automate in Detroit this week, the annual trade show for industrial automation in which we imperfect biological organisms really do sit in awe of our technological superiors. Really, this is love, not fear.

Sharing their observations on how much they look forward to this utopian future in which we'll be sure the keep the machines oiled and the software patched were:

• Mike Bacidore, Editor-in-Chief of Control Design
• Rehana Begg, Editor-in-Chief of Machine Design
• Robert Schoenberger, Editor-in-Chief of IndustryWeek and Editorial Director of Endeavor Business Media's Manufacturing Group
• Sharon Spielman, Technical Editor for Machine Design
• Linda Wilson, Editor-in-Chief of Vision Systems Design