Model-Based System Architecture, 2nd Edition

24Outlook: The World After Artificial Intelligence

In this book, the fictitious “Scalable Observation and Rescue System” allows for studying today's systems architecting challenges with artificial intelligence inside the system‐of‐interest. Artificial intelligence however is expected to break out of the boundaries of such systems under development, also conquering the systems used for system development, e.g. the tools used by engineers and thus also the ones assisting the system architect. The superiority of machine execution of algorithms over manual architecting is seen already today when we watch functional architecture being created almost automatically during the semi‐automatic process we have described in Figure 17.15. The only manual step remains the functional grouping – and who knows, maybe this step will soon be enabled by artificial intelligence and thus be machine‐executable as well.

The frontiers between humans and machines move – and we may ask ourselves which of our own work in systems architecting will soon be done by an artificial intelligence. When talking about “The World After Artificial Intelligence” in the chapter title, we do of course not expect that artificial intelligence will ever vanish. It is simply too powerful. With the “world after,” we mean the world in which artificial intelligence is an integral part of our daily life like electric fridges today – so a standard technology rather than still something under radical and game‐changing development. ...