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AI Is Less Of A Threat Than Some Suggest

AI Is Less Of A Threat Than Some Suggest

NTT Docomo 5G robot mirroring the operator’s movements doing calligraphy, during the Mobile World Congress day 3, on February 28, 2018 . (Photo by Joan Cros/NurPhoto via Getty Images) While robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) promise great advances in productivity, mostly they seem to worry people. Commentators talk and write endlessly about how these marvelous technologies will steal jobs from both workers and the managerial class, creating a large unemployed population. If history has anything to say, however, and it does, such fears are not only exaggerated, they are off the mark entirely. Ultimately, AI will create more new […]

Why Artificial Intelligence Won’t Be as Bad—or as Good—as Everyone Thinks

Why Artificial Intelligence Won't Be as Bad—or as Good—as Everyone Thinks

The humanoid robot AILA (artificial intelligence lightweight android) operates a switchboard during a demonstration by the German research centre for artificial intelligence at the CeBit computer fair in Hanover March, 5, 2013. The biggest fair of its kind open its doors to the public on March 5 and will run till March 9, 2013. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch Robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) have fed two kinds of dreams, the first of the hopeful pleasant sort, and the other a nightmare. The first tells of great abundance, convenience and wealth. The other warns of job loss and widespread unemployment, among both […]

Quality, meaningful future work hinges on human-machine ‘complementarity’

Quality, meaningful future work hinges on human-machine 'complementarity'

Massage therapists, breathe easy. Robots won’t steal your job. They don’t have the empathy, manual dexterity or ability to ask the right questions. Radiologists, take notice . A tool wired with machine learning algorithms can easily interpret medical images using computer-aided diagnosis systems.

But there are 26 other tasks radiologists do that machines can’t do well, such as administering conscious sedation during procedures or developing treatment plans, said Erik Brynjolfsson, director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy. He was sharing results of a study on tasks in various jobs that can be done well by machines, at the […]

On AI and Jobs, We Are All Augmentarians Now

On AI and Jobs, We Are All Augmentarians Now

Walmart’s Katie Finnegan onstage at Emtech Next For a couple of days this week, I attended the EmTech NEXT conference at MIT, which is organized by MIT Technology Review. The focus of the event was that fabled idea “The Future of Work,” and if you are on the side of the humans, the future seems pretty bright. Virtually every speaker (MIT folks, AI and robotics leaders) came out in favor of augmentation over automation. They say that AI and robots won’t take our jobs, but rather augment them by doing the things we humans don’t do so well.

I must […]

Innovation is creating jobs faster than technology destroys them

Innovation is creating jobs faster than technology destroys them

Malaysian entrepreneur, founder and executive chairman of the QI Group Vijay Eswaran explores how technology is creating jobs, as opposed to fuelling a decline.

Since the turn of the century, it has often been said that all the promise of technological progress is set to collide with the rising tide of population growth in the form of many millions of lost jobs on the altar of automation, resulting in a full-blown employment catastrophe – more catastrophic than any economic meltdown we’ve seen before.

This argument, once reserved for futurologists and academics, has seeped into popular consciousness. Elites at Davos, Switzerland, […]

Top Ten Books This Week – June 04, 2018

Top fiction and non-fiction works of this week | By Yentha Non Fiction
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1. Janice Kaplan :How Luck Happens :Using the Science of Luck to Transform Work Love and Life :Janice Kaplan :Rs 499.00
New York Times bestselling author Janice Kaplan examines the phenomenon of luck–and discovers the exciting ways you can grab opportunities and make luck for yourself every day. After spending a year researching and experiencing gratitude for The Gratitude Diaries, Janice Kaplan is back to tackle another big, mysterious influence in all our lives: luck. And this time she’s joined on her journey by coauthor Dr. Barnaby […]

Views on Automation’s U.S. Workforce Impact Highlight Demographic Divide

Views on Automation’s U.S. Workforce Impact Highlight Demographic Divide

Younger Americans, those who are less educated and those with smaller incomes are more concerned than older, more affluent and more educated adults about how automation will affect their jobs, according to a new poll.

The Morning Consult survey , conducted May 18-21 among a national sample of 2,204 U.S. adults, found that 59 percent of respondents believe automation and associated technologies — artificial intelligence, driverless cars and robots — will decrease their U.S. job opportunities, while 20 percent said automation will increase the number of available jobs. Wealthier Americans were less likely to be pessimistic about job retention as […]

10 jobs that won’t exist 20 years from now

10 jobs that won't exist 20 years from now

Mail carriers might become a thing of the past. Paul De Los Reyes/Flickr The truth is, no industry is 100% safeguarded against the influence of technology.

Some workers, such as dispatchers, are more at risk of seeing their jobs become computerized than others.

Occupations that tend to be more routine and repetitive will likely cease to exist in 20 years. Out with the old, in with the robots! These days, new technological advances happen all the time — and while some industries have flourished in the changing landscape, others have fallen prey to automation .Here’s the […]

What does the ‘future of work’ mean for schools? Big claims leave educators with more questions than answers

What does the ‘future of work’ mean for schools? Big claims leave educators with more questions than answers

“It’s time to update our schools so they work better for today’s students,” Stacey Childress, the head of New Schools Venture Fund, said earlier this month at the organization’s annual summit — a who’s who of charter school leaders, their funders, their advocates, and others promoting school choice or education technology.

“With the twin forces of automation and globalization just absolutely changing the very nature of opportunity and work, this is more important than ever.”

It’s a message that’s hard to miss.U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos recently told the Wall Street Journal that schools need to change because by the […]

Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber Review

Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber Review

Graeber, an anthropology professor at the London School of Economics, was a mover and shaker in the Occupy Wall Street movement and is well known for his approachable critiques of neoliberal free market ideology. His new book, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory (Simon & Schuster; $27), sprang from a shorter essay he published in 2013 in a feminist-activist magazine called Strike , which quickly struck a nerve. (One that kept thrumming: on a Monday morning in 2015, an anonymous group plastered the London Underground with quotations from the writings.)

“Huge swathes of people spend their days performing jobs they secretly believe […]