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What would you train a Bot to do?

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Dinah Young Project Manager / Software Asset Manager| Prince William County Springfield, Va, United States
Everyone has those tasks that they just cringe when it is time to do. A friend of mine told me that she was always told that when you have children you train them to do the chores you do not like to do. She joked that as soon as they were able to hold an iron, she was going to have her kids doing all of the ironing.
But after the symposium yesterday, thinking about AI, Bots and Drones, what would you want to offload first?
For me it would probably be writing test plans and testing. It is such a monotonous task for me and I do not like doing it.
What about you?
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Kiron Bondale Retired | Mentor| Retired Welland, Ontario, Canada
Dinah -

Not sure I'd have a bot do test plan writing as that takes a fair bit of creativity and analysis. Test execution is different, but good practices would have you automate those already vs. manual testing.

Status reporting would be my favorite mind-numbing activity to automate...

Kiron
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2 replies by Dinah Young and Joshua Render
Jun 14, 2018 5:27 PM
Joshua Render
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One can only dream.
Jun 14, 2018 5:50 PM
Dinah Young
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If it was easy I would not want the not to do it. AI should be able to add the creativity :). Just give it time.
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Joshua Render Product Owner| Cognizant Harrisville, Ny, United States
I think it would be cool to get a bot to build other bots and have them take over the world Skynet style.

But other than that - pretty much any of the documentation. I don't mind gathering the requirements, but if I could feed my notes to a bot and have it write it out professionally, that would be number one on my list.
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Joshua Render Product Owner| Cognizant Harrisville, Ny, United States
To add to that, another request - a bot to navigate the bureaucracy for me. Have it put in a request, get the response from IT that we have the wrong department, and have it go that that department and put in the request, and receive another response that it has the wrong department and go to a different department and repeat until it finally finds the right one.
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Joshua Render Product Owner| Cognizant Harrisville, Ny, United States
Jun 14, 2018 5:16 PM
Replying to Kiron Bondale
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Dinah -

Not sure I'd have a bot do test plan writing as that takes a fair bit of creativity and analysis. Test execution is different, but good practices would have you automate those already vs. manual testing.

Status reporting would be my favorite mind-numbing activity to automate...

Kiron
One can only dream.
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Daniel Wesloskie PMO| Professional Services Firm Pa, United States
I wouldn't necessarily train it myself, but I would send it to a good culinary school, where someone who knows what they're doing would train it.
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1 reply by Joshua Render
Jun 14, 2018 5:30 PM
Joshua Render
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I'll train it for you. I make the best box macaroni and cheese in the country.
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Joshua Render Product Owner| Cognizant Harrisville, Ny, United States
Jun 14, 2018 5:28 PM
Replying to Daniel Wesloskie
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I wouldn't necessarily train it myself, but I would send it to a good culinary school, where someone who knows what they're doing would train it.
I'll train it for you. I make the best box macaroni and cheese in the country.
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1 reply by Dinah Young
Jun 14, 2018 5:51 PM
Dinah Young
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I don't know about that. My box Mac and cheese is pretty good.
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Dinah Young Project Manager / Software Asset Manager| Prince William County Springfield, Va, United States
Jun 14, 2018 5:16 PM
Replying to Kiron Bondale
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Dinah -

Not sure I'd have a bot do test plan writing as that takes a fair bit of creativity and analysis. Test execution is different, but good practices would have you automate those already vs. manual testing.

Status reporting would be my favorite mind-numbing activity to automate...

Kiron
If it was easy I would not want the not to do it. AI should be able to add the creativity :). Just give it time.
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Dinah Young Project Manager / Software Asset Manager| Prince William County Springfield, Va, United States
Jun 14, 2018 5:30 PM
Replying to Joshua Render
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I'll train it for you. I make the best box macaroni and cheese in the country.
I don't know about that. My box Mac and cheese is pretty good.
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Sante Delle-Vergini, PhD Senior Project Manager| Infosys Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
I would train a bot to train other bots. Strength in numbers ;-)
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Vincent Guerard Coach - Trainer - Speaker - Advisor| Freelance Mont-Royal, Quebec, Canada
I would get a bot to do most of the house task!

and some of the repeating task that doesn't add values but are necessaries
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