Fighting the bots for jobs

Fighting the bots for jobs

There are optimists among entrepreneurs and academicians who have rightly pointed out that every technology-driven ‘revolution’ also has generated new jobs. Photo: iStockphoto Two years ago, I saw something that got me really worried about future job losses. I visited a start-up based in the US that demonstrated an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based platform which automated expense processing for a financial services company. The platform not only increased accuracy but also reduced the employed team of several hundreds by 85%! New jobs added to support the new process were a small fraction of the jobs lost.

Watching the platform at work, […]

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