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How workers can stay relevant in the era of Artificial Intelligence – Talend

How workers can stay relevant in the era of Artificial Intelligence - Talend

Article by Talend A/NZ country manager Steve Singer

When it comes to hot topics in the technology sector, they don’t get much hotter than artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML).

Backed by significant investments in research and development, AI and ML are rapidly gaining traction and appearing in a diverse range of applications.The technologies are already appearing in everything from self-driving cars and delivery drones to facial recognition and security systems.However, while they will clearly have a transformative impact on many areas of daily life, attention is now turning to the impact AI and ML will have on employment.Many […]

For Every 100 Jobs It Replaces, Only 10 AI-Related Jobs Are Created Right Now

For Every 100 Jobs It Replaces, Only 10 AI-Related Jobs Are Created Right Now

One of the main reasons artificial intelligence makes people worried is that they think it’s going to take away their jobs.

And to some extent that will happen, except experts promise there will be other jobs created in the process. Only thing is, that may not be the case. AI jobs The Economic Times recently sat down for its Technology Talent Equilibrium panel with a few experts, including Sridhar Mitta, founder of digital technology services provider NextWealth Entrepreneurs; Prakash Mallya, the head of Intel India, and Supriyo Das, vice-president, Wipro Technologies. And they believe AI and automation are actually causing […]

Is the IoT Creating or Destroying Jobs?

Is the IoT Creating or Destroying Jobs?

Thirty years ago, “cloud engineer” would have been a pretty good slang term for an airline pilot. Thanks to the growing reach of the Internet, though, it’s now a job in its own right, just like “chatbot designer,” “social media manager,” and “database architect.” Technological advances like artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things are creating a wealth of new jobs that we never saw coming, but if you’re a food service worker or nuclear power reactor operator , you should probably start updating your resume.

Automation and connected devices are coming for high- and low-skill jobs alike, and many […]

People don’t want to see workers replaced by a robot—themselves excepted

/ Robots are everywhere.

There has been extensive public discussion of how automation may fundamentally change the job market, eliminating so many positions that some sort of universal income will be required. While the universal income discussion may be new, anxieties about machinery and automation replacing human work , with worries growing with the advent of robotics and machine-learning algorithms.

In general, it‘s clear that people worry about jobs lost due to automation. But they tend to worry about job losses in general. To find out whether job losses due to automation produce a distinct set of worries, researchers did an […]

Invite Only- Future of Work: Employment in an Age of Rising Automation & AI

Invite Only- Future of Work: Employment in an Age of Rising Automation & AI

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Join us in a conversation with Bloomberg technology reporter and editor Aki Ito to discuss what the future of work may look like in an era of rising automation and artificial intellegence. Aki currently hosts Bloomberg’s award-winning mini-documentary video series Next Jobs , which profiles people in careers that did not exist a generation ago.

Automation and AI will affect tasks in virtually all occupational groups in the future but the effects will be of varying intensity. Approximately 25 percent of U.S. employment (36 million jobs in 2016) will face high exposure to […]

The Robots Are Not Coming

The Robots Are Not Coming

(Image by Kai Schreiber / CC) If you follow technology, you could be forgiven for believing that humanity is standing the precipice of a robot apocalypse. It’s only a matter of time before automation eliminates so many jobs that humans will simply no longer be “needed.” Right?

Five years back, YouTuber CGP Grey made this case in his popular Humans Need Not Apply video. Since then, the labor market has not been transforming in the way that Grey had imagined. What gives?

In 2015, MIT economist David Autor published an essay entitled Why Are There Still So Many Jobs? The History […]

Automation Could Drastically Change The Landscape Of Labor. But Who Loses In An Increasingly High-Tech World?

Automation Could Drastically Change The Landscape Of Labor. But Who Loses In An Increasingly High-Tech World?

Automobile production. Shutterstock While automation can lead to higher productivity and cheaper prices for consumers, its emergence poses a risk for a significant portion of the U.S. labor force, studies found.

The working class — including individuals employed in the production, food service, and transportation industries — are at greater risk of losing their jobs to automation than others who are working in fields that require more education.

One study by the Brookings Institution found that, while automation won’t lead to a “job apocalypse,” it could spell trouble for working class Americans who perform monotonous jobs. […]

Tariff-Front-Running Hits US Manufacturing, after Causing Biggest Surge since 2004

Tariff-Front-Running Hits US Manufacturing, after Causing Biggest Surge since 2004

Supply chains begin to shift back to the US suppliers, “due to tariffs.”

Two US manufacturing reports were released this morning, one showing the fastest decline since June 2009, and the other showing an increase in growth, and given the bad numbers recently, the fastest growth in five months. So get ready for mild whiplash.

The bad news came from the Institute of Supply Management (ISM), whose Manufacturing Report on Business for September fell to 47.8. In this diffusion-type index, a value above 50 means growth and a value below 50 means decline. Today’s reading was the second month […]

Robots a Threat to British workers – why?

Robots a Threat to British workers – why?

Robots a Threat to British workers – why? More than ten million United Kingdom staff square measure at high risk of being replaced by robots among fifteen years because the automation of routine tasks gathers pace in an exceedingly new machine age.

A report by the practice firm PwC found that half-hour of jobs in GB was probably below threat from breakthroughs in computer science (AI). In some sectors, half the jobs could go.

The report aforesaid the largest impact would air staff World Health Organization had left college with GCSEs or lower, and that there was an argument for government […]

Robots are hurting your paychecks, study finds

Robots are hurting your paychecks, study finds

Debate over impact of robots in the workforce Automation has “significantly contributed” to a decrease in the portion of national income that goes to American workers over the past two decades, according to a new report published by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco .

Although the bank found that a decline in union membership,m increased outsourcing and offshoring and non-compete clauses that hurt workers’ ability to switch jobs are also contributing to a shrinking paycheck, automation is the primary cause.

Despite a strong labor market and consistently low unemployment, the labor share, or the portion of national income going […]