This week IoT TECHEXPO was the main event at Olympia in London, combined with BLOCKCHAIN EXPO and AI EXPO. This was an impressively large event, though still not quite at the critical mass of some of the Security Exhibitions held recently at the same location. Though it shows that converged application of the 3 different technologies is gaining traction.
It was impressive how many vendors were launching new services based on blockchain. An aweful lot of them were based around assuring identity and provenance of assets, people and devices. So there were universal "passport" service, property dealing services, fine art trading, new travel disintermediation services and so on. In addition to several crypto currencies that I had not heard of before, there were a lot of wallet and token services.
In fact at one point I got the impression that the suppliers there were providing the means for circumventing national authorities with their own private currencies and virtual passports. For if you imagine a consortium of multinational businesses using tokens to trade with some end of year settlement in real money, this could totally confuse any picture of their tax obligations based on monetary trading transactions.
Putting this aside, the most interesting talk was probably the one on using AI for programming by Kiki de Bruijn of Diffblue which was heavily oversubscribed. She described the challenges of trying to generate code without human input and advocated the use of AI and Machine Learning based tools as productivity and quality aids instead, as it is difficult to replace the creative aspect of development as well as deal with all the potential complexities of developing well integrated code to meet all eventualities,
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