AI controlled vehicles, such as this truck could eliminate many jobs in the not-too-distant future. (AP) When Gary Foran first started working on the Oland Brewery production line in the 1970s, he was part of a 37-member team pushing out 200 beer bottles a minute.
By the time he retired 11 years ago, Foran’s team was down to just 16 people and Oland was using palletizer machines to pack up beer bottles — at a rate of 600 per minute — and ship them straight to liquor stores.
Today, Foran sees such automation morphing into artificial intelligence, promising everything from driverless […]
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