Tag: Technical

Trump’s Wild Claims Test Limits of Republican Loyalty

Trump’s Wild Claims Test Limits of Republican Loyalty

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s wild and unsupported claims of voter fraud have emerged as a high-stakes Republican loyalty test that illustrates the tug of war likely to define the future of the GOP whether he wins or loses.

There is a pervasive sense among current and former GOP officials that the president’s behavior is irresponsible if not dangerous, but a divide has emerged between those influential Republicans willing to call him out publicly and those who aren’t.

Driving their calculus is an open acknowledgment that Trump’s better-than-expected showing on Election Day ensures that he will remain the Republican Party’s […]

How to turn 3 top tech hobbies into a career

How to turn 3 top tech hobbies into a career

If you’re looking for a new career, your tech hobbies may well point the way to the specialties you might want to explore. But, a word of warning, once you turn a hobby into work, it’s somehow less fun than it once was.

Maybe it’s the pressure of having to do things you like when you don’t feel like doing them. Maybe it’s having too much of a good thing. Nevertheless, if you’re doing something you already love, it helps to make the workday easier. If you’re into these three tech hobbies, they may be the basis for future employment […]

The inequitable effects of the robot revolution

The inequitable effects of the robot revolution

ROSALIND LIANG/THE VARSITY The adoption of technology commercially can be a slow process, but COVID-19 has accelerated it as firms try to reduce the number of humans in the workplace.

Artificial intelligence has long sparked fear of unemployment due to automation. While the risk of job loss depends on a variety of factors — such as the ease with which a robot could replace a task — the social implications of automation are different for men and women.

A recent study by Statistics Canada estimated the unequal risk of job transformation faced by men and women as a result of […]

Hello, financial world: The CFO and artificial intelligence

Hello, financial world: The CFO and artificial intelligence

chevron_left Aaron Harris, CTO, Sage. Does artificial intelligence (AI) pose a threat to different types of employment?

In South Africa, with an unemployment rate of over 30%, these concerns are valid. Yet, AI is a broad church of different applications. Automating checkouts at supermarkets for efficiency can be counterproductive, as shoppers often enjoy interactions with sales staff.

If a CFO is still manually gathering data and pouring over the figures one line at a time, they are wasting an enormous amount of their capacity and professional potential.Only one in 10 CFOs believe AI will take their jobs. This ratio may contradict […]

New World, New Skills To Create New Employment Opportunities

New World, New Skills To Create New Employment Opportunities

Covid-19 has changed the world. It has changed how people conduct their businesses and how they relate to each other. Crowds are being limited and businesses are embracing their employees working from their homes.

“Covid-19 was something that was not anticipated. It is an event in history that no one was ready for. Institutions did not have strategies in place. Organizations, including ourselves, had not figured out how we can enable employees to work remotely and still deliver the same required results. Many have ended up reacting towards Covid-19,” said Mr. James Muhia from PwC.

The coming of Covid-19 led to […]

The secret to designing a positive future with AI? Imagination

The secret to designing a positive future with AI? Imagination

Ongoing developments in automation and AI may, if left unchecked, leave most humans with no economically valuable role in society.

Imagination can be an overlooked ally in the battle for a more positive future.

The World Economic Forum Global AI Council experts and policy makers have met with science fiction authors and organized a movie competition to gain a range of perspectives and visions for the future. Many physical tasks previously seen as un-automatable can now be performed by machines , from medical diagnoses to legal document drafting. Meanwhile, the need for remote working during the COVID-19 pandemic is […]

Webinar: Humans – Plus Machines – Key to Secure Workforce

Webinar: Humans – Plus Machines – Key to Secure Workforce

By L. C. Leach III

The answer was a simple ‘No’ to this question: In the future, will humans be replaced in the manufacturing workplace by machines?

The question was the intended subject of the Greenville Chamber of Commerce’s webinar Oct. 22.But guest consultant David Clayton, executive director for Clemson University’s International Center for Automotive Research (CU-ICAR) in Greenville, explained to an online audience of about 30 that the future of manufacturing in the Upstate will continue to involve both machines and humans.“Automation, robotics, or even artificial intelligence and thinking machines is about precision,” Clayton said. “BMW, for example has hired […]

These tech jobs may disappear in the face of automation

These tech jobs may disappear in the face of automation

When Dale Wilkinson first set out to launch a website, he had never written a line of code before. His first step as a non-technical founder seemed clear – he needed to find a software developer to build out his vision.

He found one in Los Angeles, but then he discovered on Twitter a company called Bubble , a service that lets users build web applications with a visual editor, without writing any code themselves. For Wilkinson, it was a game changer. In mid-2019, the 37-year-old launched Goodgigs , which connects mission-driven companies with people seeking work. Sign-ups have since […]

The Reality of Automation and the Future of Work

The Reality of Automation and the Future of Work

The threat of automation is not a new thing, nor are the worries that come with it. In the early 19th century, textile artisans in the Luddite movement fought automation for fear of losing their jobs and livelihood. They worried that newly developed automation (think basic machinery) would leave them jobless. While it’s true that changes did occur, by the time the 20th century came along, employment-to-population ratios rose despite these technological advances. The workforce generally is good at adapting to new technology, and while automation will continue to take over new tasks as it evolves, humans don’t have […]

Workforce Education is Vital to Support Growing Robotics Market

Workforce Education is Vital to Support Growing Robotics Market

By 2022, an operational stock of almost 4 million industrial robots are expected to be working in factories worldwide. These robots will play a vital role in automating production to speed up the post-COVID-19 economy. At the same time, robots are driving demand for skilled workers, therefore educational systems must effectively adjust to this demand. That’s according to a new positioning paper, “Robots and the Workplace of the Future,” from the International Federation of Robotics (IFR).

“Governments and companies around the globe now need to focus on providing the right skills necessary to work with robots and intelligent automation systems,” […]