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Someone Needs To Tell Trump About Automation

Someone Needs To Tell Trump About Automation

WASHINGTON, DC – FEBRUARY 05: President Donald Trump delivers the State of the Union address in the chamber of the U.S. House of Representatives at the U.S. Capitol Building on February 5, 2019 in Washington, DC. President Trump’s second State of the Union address was postponed one week due to the partial government shutdown. (Photo: Chip Somodevilla, Getty) The first substantive claim President Donald Trump made in his second State of the Union address concerned what is perhaps his favourite non-Wallean topic: blue-collar jobs.

If there are two professions that Trump has awkwardly and effusively embraced during his tenure as […]

AI and machine learning expected to boost productivity

An increase in the productivity and pace of business processes can be expected, owing to the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), says cloud service firm Oracle South Africa MD Niral Patel .

An autonomous enterprise requires less time for manual tasks and lower margins of human error because of labour-intensive work. These productivity-increasing technologies are helping to transform traditional roles and create new forms of employment.

“It is about improving the decision-making capabilities of people by arming them with rich, relevant, topical and timely data,” he explains.Autonomous systems can accelerate tasks that take more time than businesses […]

Vijay Eswaran Talks About the Role of Technology in the Modern Business Landscape

Vijay Eswaran Talks About the Role of Technology in the Modern Business Landscape

As influential leaders, entrepreneurs, and politicians gather in Davos, Switzerland, for the World Economic Forum, one topic is on everyone’s mind: the impact technology is having on the workplace. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau touched on the topic with concern for the speed of change. He stated that “the world of work certainly has changed a lot since I started out in business in the 1980s… The pace of change, [especially technological change], has never been this fast, yet it will never be this slow again.” This echoes the fears that many of us share about the pace of […]

AI and the Future of Work

AI and the Future of Work

UVA Darden School of Business , UVA Darden , University of Virginia Darden , University of Virginia Darden School of Business , Anton Korinek , Artificial Intelligence , Economics , robot process automation , advanced machine learning

By Dave Hendrick

Newswise — Imagine an observer from another galaxy descends to Earth and sees entities called humans and entities called machines interacting with each other.How would the observer answer the question “Which entity controls the other?”In a recent paper, University of Virginia Darden School of Business Professor Anton Korinek presents the thought experiment as a part of a […]

In new report on automation, some good news for Minnesota’s workers

In new report on automation, some good news for Minnesota’s workers

MinnPost’s Good Jobs beat is made possible by a grant from MSPWin , a philanthropic collaborative committed to strengthening the workforce in the Twin Cities metro area. MSPWin plays no role in determining the content of the coverage. Data accompanying the report say occupations such as welders and machinists are among the most likely to face automation. As technology continues to change the American workplace and the U.S. economy, roughly one quarter of jobs in the country are at high risk of becoming largely automated in the next decade and beyond, according to a new report from The Brookings […]

How Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Our Economic Future

How Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Our Economic Future

Look around. Artificial intelligence applications are everywhere, from the automated production lines in factories to the machine learning algorithms that extract meaning from mountains of data. AI has become the fabric of modern society. But where is it all going?

As computing systems become smarter, and as intelligent automation and the economy become more tightly interwoven, people start to wonder … will robots take our jobs ? For experts who study such matters, the short answer is yes — some of them. But do not fear. Artificial intelligence applications will also create new employment opportunities never before imagined, boost profitability […]

Threat of automation varies greatly by location, occupation, education

Is a robot coming for your job?

A new study by the Brookings Institution suggests that intelligent machines may well take over many more tasks from humans in the future. But it forecasts dramatic differences among cities, occupations, ethnic and racial groups, educational levels and age groups.

"California turns out to have super-stark variations — regions with both the highest and lowest exposures to disruption," said Mark Muro, director of Brookings’ Metropolitan Policy Program and author of the report along with researchers Robert Maxim and Jacob Whiton.The Brookings study comes as a slew of academic and policy group papers have sought […]

Myth Debunked: Machines Create More Jobs Than They Destroy

Myth Debunked: Machines Create More Jobs Than They Destroy

Ding Ting/Xinhua/ZUMA MUNICH — Do machines replace humans? Since the beginning of industrialization 200 years ago, we earthlings have been plagued by this fear. From the early uprisings of the weavers to the 1970s "job killer computer" slogan, and up until the 2013 thesis of researchers Michael Osborne and Carl B. Frey, according to whom machines could soon take away every second job. But a German researcher, Terry Gregory of the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), now presents a very different calculation. According to him, automation has brought Europe an additional 1.5 million jobs in the past decade.

Whether machines […]

In growing shadow of big data, Mass. lawmakers are working to shine a light

In growing shadow of big data, Mass. lawmakers are working to shine a light

Students sit for an exam in a computer room at a technical school in Jinan, China. George Soros is right to call artificial intelligence technologies “a mortal danger” for open societies like ours ( “China and the AI threat to open societies,” Opinion, Feb. 4). In the United States, we are increasingly subject to the whims of secretive databases and algorithms. Our opportunities for housing, employment, education, and more are becoming dictated by big data and automation.

Surveillance technologies built on machine learning and big data also pose a threat to democracy, open society, and justice. Right now in Massachusetts, […]

Someone Needs to Tell Trump About Automation

Someone Needs to Tell Trump About Automation

WASHINGTON, DC – FEBRUARY 05: President Donald Trump delivers the State of the Union address in the chamber of the U.S. House of Representatives at the U.S. Capitol Building on February 5, 2019 in Washington, DC. President Trump’s second State of the Union address was postponed one week due to the partial government shutdown. Photo: Chip Somodevilla (Getty) The first substantive claim President Donald Trump made in his second State of the Union address concerned what is perhaps his favorite non-Wallean topic: blue-collar jobs. If there are two professions that Trump has awkwardly and effusively embraced during his tenure […]