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Your View: Why Andrew Yang is right about risks of automation

Your View: Why Andrew Yang is right about risks of automation

An operator replaces bottles of alcoholic spirits above an automated cocktail maker at an ‘AI: More than Human’ exhibition in London, England. (Leon Neal/Getty) Recently, The Morning Call ran an op-ed urging us to ignore presidential candidate Andrew Yang and have faith that automation is good for the economy (“Your View: Ignore Andrew Yang. Automation is good for our economy,” Nov. 2). The writer concludes by saying that automation will free us to seek “meaningful employment.”

We can assume meaningful employment refers to professional jobs that are mostly service-oriented white collar careers. Guess what? Meaningful employment can be automated too.

For […]

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 […]

PACK EXPO is Proud to Give BACK

PACK EXPO is Proud to Give BACK

PACK gives BACK™, sponsored by Rockwell Automation, raised over $30,000 at this year’s PACK EXPO Las Vegas and Healthcare Packaging EXPO (Sept. 23-25, 2019, Las Vegas Convention Center) owned and produced by PMMI, The Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies.

Each year, PACK EXPO hosts its flagship annual benefit concert and donates the proceeds to a good cause. The beneficiary of this year’s event is NS2 Serves ® , a nonprofit dedicated to helping recent U.S. military veterans transition from combat boots to business suits. This charitable group provides valuable IT training and employment assistance at no cost to veterans.

“At […]

The Coming Robot Apocalypse: Disruption and Opportunity in an AI-Powered Future

The Coming Robot Apocalypse: Disruption and Opportunity in an AI-Powered Future

Guest Contribution by Jason Finkelstein, SVP of Global Marketing, AdRoll (a division of NextRoll Inc.)

When The Terminator debuted in 1984, it presented the world with a very tactile and very simple vision for the coming battle between humanity and the machines. For those not well-versed in ‘80s sci-fi thrillers, the film series focuses on military AI that gains self-awareness and sets out to exterminate humanity using all sorts of robots, cyborgs, and automated drones.

Here in 2019, 22 years after Skynet gained self-awareness in the fictional universe, humanity seems to be on the verge of a very different kind […]

Human Nurses and Robotic Nurses: A Symbiotic Relationship

Human Nurses and Robotic Nurses: A Symbiotic Relationship

Article from | Mardax

As with any other sector, rapid technological breakthroughs are spearheading a major revolution in the nursing and healthcare industry as well. The exponentially evolving use of robotics in consonance with other convergent functionalities such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) is radically transforming and restructuring the ways of providing healthcare services by making laborious and repetitive tasks much easier and efficient. Healthcare providers today are faced with increasing labor costs and a shortage of workers and are thus investing in robotics. Quicker to train and cheaper to maintain, nurse service robots are programmed to deftly accomplish […]

WILL MAN ALWAYS FEAR THE MACHINE?

WILL MAN ALWAYS FEAR THE MACHINE?

Throughout history, people have often felt threatened by machines. With every technological innovation that offers faster and more accurate options, there has been a bleak picture for jobs and employment. Yet, here we are today, having survived the massive automation of the industrial revolution and the age of computerization. The industrial revolution transformed the rules of economics, employment and the face of society. Then came computerization, which, despite our skepticism, is now an intrinsic part of our lives. Interestingly, what both of these revolutions ushered in was a focus on and an expectation of increased efficiency.

So, will the Artificial […]

3 Reasons Why Truckers Jobs Are Safe From Automation

3 Reasons Why Truckers Jobs Are Safe From Automation

When people talk about the jobs that are likely to be automated in the coming years, trucking is one of the most common to be cited, with innovations by companies like Otto used to exemplify the risk drivers face.

It’s a risk that a new study suggests is significantly overblown, and the authors provide three reasons why this is so. A more expansive role than we think

The first reason is that trucking involves quite a bit more than ‘just’ driving the rig, so even if the driving part can be safely automated, that’s not to say that the role […]

The 2020s are set to be an economic turning point, says global banking giant

The 2020s are set to be an economic turning point, says global banking giant

Bank of America Merrill Lynch says inequality will peak amid the rise of "moral capitalism". The 2020s are set to be a decade of dramatic economic and social upheaval, reversing many of the trends of the past 40 years, according to one of the world’s largest banks. Bank of America Merrill Lynch says the era of globalisation from 1981-2016 has ended and is reversing

The bank’s analysts expect inflation and interest rates to increase from their current 5,000-year lows

The bank is expecting wealth inequality to fall next decade as voters demand redistribution and taxes rise In what it […]

Despite what you might have read, robots aren’t coming for our jobs

Despite what you might have read, robots aren’t coming for our jobs

By Michael Coelli , University of Melbourne, and Jeff Borland , University of Melbourne

Should we believe headlines claiming nearly half of all jobs will be lost to robots and artificial intelligence?

We think not, and in a newly released study , we explain why.Headlines trumpeting massive job losses have been in abundance for five or so years.Most come from a common source.It is a single study , conducted in 2013 by Oxford University’s Carl Benedict Frey and Michael Osborne.This study lies behind the claim that 47% of jobs in the United States were at “high risk” of automation over […]

GUEST EDITORIAL: Minimum wage is a task for lawmakers

GUEST EDITORIAL: Minimum wage is a task for lawmakers

Joe Gruters Hide caption Once again the Florida Constitution is under assault by very well-funded special interests pursuing bad policy, and pursuing it in the worst place. This time it’s the minimum wage proposal.

This has become all too common. When special interests cannot get their way through the Legislature — the representative body elected by Floridians to pass policy-based laws — they do an end run via the constitutional amendment process. This is how we got the embarrassment of pig crates in the Florida Constitution. This betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of the purpose of a constitution.

There are two solid […]