Tag: Technical

Are The Self-Employed At Greater Risk Of Automation, And What Can We Do About It?

Are The Self-Employed At Greater Risk Of Automation, And What Can We Do About It?

null Getty The self employed are widely viewed as being in a precarious position in a number of ways. They often lack the kind of social safety net enjoyed by salaried roles, and the job by job nature of the work can render income highly uncertain.

Now, a new study from the University of Buffalo also suggests that the self employed are more at risk of their work being automated. The paper argues that much of self-employed work is low in technical expertise and fairly routine, which places the roles at high risk of automation.

“Those who are self-employed just […]

Is the rise in Artificial Intelligence superseding human employment?

Is the rise in Artificial Intelligence superseding human employment?

This century belongs to the advancement of technology. The technology of the present era baffles human beings with its wonderful services. Invention of machines with an association of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and automation are the products of technology. These days amenities provided by AI are invaluable. One couldn’t contemplate in the past that one would make visible contact with one’s dear ones sitting in far-flung areas. Now even a low-income citizen can make video contact-a widespread phenomenon-withhis relatives or friends.Theexample that I have cited is a very ordinary one of the services provided by technology. However, with the rise […]

Welcome to The Colony: Home of the Industry’s First Integrated Automation Platform

Welcome to The Colony: Home of the Industry’s First Integrated Automation Platform

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As robotic process automation (RPA) platforms evolve, they usually come up against a significant obstacle, one that’s dogged the interaction between humans and computers since the latter became widespread in the enterprise: unstructured data.

That’s a technical term that suggests a random scattering of information but, in reality, it just refers to any data that’s presented to a silicon brain (or bot) that’s in an unexpected format.In most business functions, that occurrence is more common than you might imagine, because although we like to think of modern software and systems as ‘smart’, it doesn’t take much to […]

Fourth Industrial Revolution and (unwarranted) pessimism over jobs

Fourth Industrial Revolution and (unwarranted) pessimism over jobs

Ever since Homo erectus carved a piece of stone into a tool, the welfare of our species has been on the increase. Indeed, this technological breakthrough led first to the hand axe and eventually to the iPhone. We have found it convenient to organise the most dramatic period of change between these inventions into four industrial revolutions.

As each revolution unfolded, dire predictions of massive job losses ensued, increasing with each. The first three are over and these concerns were clearly misplaced. The number of jobs increased each time, as did living standards and every other social indicator.

McKinsey predicts that […]

Automation Concerns Spur Calls to Assist Workers in Adapting

Automation Concerns Spur Calls to Assist Workers in Adapting

I. DANEEK MILLER: Some civil-service jobs dwindling. City employees may have to worry less about being replaced by a machine than workers across the rest of the country, but more programs need to be introduced to help hundreds of thousands of low-skilled workers, advocates said during a Nov. 13 City Council hearing on how automation could affect jobs.

“The good news is that the city is less vulnerable than much of the country,” Eli Dvorkin, policy director of the Center for an Urban Future, told the Council’s Committee on Civil Service and Labor. The nonprofit issued a report last year […]

Automating A Job Reddit

Automated underwriting software allows workers to process applications more quickly than before, reducing the need for as many underwriters. The automated, hyper-efficient shop floors of modern manufacturing won’t give Trump much room to deliver on his outsized promises to bring back millions of jobs for his blue-collar supporters. Scripting custom tools to automate material layouts and cost estimates while creating a scale diagram to add to the construction documents for installers. #HBO #VICEonHBO Subscribe to the. Feb 25, 2018 · How To Automation-Proof Your Career. A resume parser cuts your resume into smaller chunks and then categorizes these into […]

WiCipedia: Tech Falls High in Happiness Index & the Blue Collar-AI Struggle

WiCipedia: Tech Falls High in Happiness Index & the Blue Collar-AI Struggle

Comment (0) This week in our WiCipedia roundup: Techies are pretty dang happy at work; AI’s effect on female blue-collar workers; college students are majority female though tech workforce lags; and more. Despite tech’s reputation for having double standards for different genders and races, people who work in tech are still some of the most satisfied with their careers. A study from CNBC and SurveyMonkey examined the happiness indexes of different professions, and found that 90% of tech workers are satisfied with their jobs. "With their high salaries, enviable perks, and jobs that really are changing the way the […]

Trade department lays out plans for onset of advanced manufacturing

assembly line GOVERNMENT agencies are proposing programs to address job losses caused by the possible contraction of the manufacturing sector due to increased automation, officials said at an economic forum.

Representatives from the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) and the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) disclosed the plans at a Philippine Economic Society forum Thursday.

“The entry of industrial technologies will add another layer of complexity to the already challenging task of developing globally competitive industries,” DTI Undersecretary Rafaelita M. Aldaba said in her presentation.“Adoption of new technologies would increase productivity but may replace workers whose tasks are to […]

Automation and its enemies

Automation and its enemies

The Industrial Revolution made technology the engine of economic growth (Landes 1969, Mokyr 1990). Before 1750, per capita income in the world doubled every 6,000 years. Since then, it has doubled every 50 years (DeLong 1999). This acceleration was in large part the consequence of applying machinery in production, which allowed us to produce more with fewer people (Frey 2019). Seen in this light, the current automation hysteria is hard to understand. Future generations could make an extraordinary leap forward from the Industrial Revolution’s ‘great enrichment’. The industrialisation process itself, however, was a different matter. The Luddites, who rioted […]

Andrew Yang: Math, Jobs and the Robot Future

Andrew Yang: Math, Jobs and the Robot Future

It’s standard by now for any bio of Andrew Yang, the 44-year-old New York businessman who is running a longshot campaign for the Democratic nomination for president of the United States, to include a smirking reference to the "Robot Apocalypse." Yang, however, is definitely not kidding. The central theme of his campaign is that technology is going to continue to put more and more Americans out of work—with devastating social consequences that we have not prepared for as a nation.

His primary answer to that challenge is a guaranteed monthly payment of $1,000 a month, no strings attached, […]