Does automation create jobs

QA Automation Engineer jobs at The If you are a tech professional who wants to directly apply for jobs, do NOT please create a new account to apply for jobs Are Robots Going To Kill Your Next Job Or were doomed by their hesitation to adopt automation. Search Brookings. As a result, many fear that technology is creating job-stealing robots. A new report from Citi and the Oxford Martin School explores the varying impact that automation of jobs will have on countries and cities around the world, in the near future and the coming decades. Forbes blogger Tim Worstall […]

Understanding the Decline of U.S. Manufacturing Employment

U.S. manufacturing experienced a precipitous and historically unprecedented decline in employment in the 2000s. Many economists and other analysts—pointing to decades of statistics showing that manufacturing real (inflation-adjusted) output growth has largely kept pace with private sector real output growth, that productivity growth has been much higher, and that the sector’s share of aggregate employment has been declining—argue that manufacturing’s job losses are largely the result of productivity growth (assumed to reflect automation) and are part of a long-term trend. Since the 1980s, however, the apparently robust growth in manufacturing real output and productivity have been driven by a […]

Artificial Intelligence bane or boon: Task Force to define

Artificial Intelligence bane or boon: Task Force to define

With the establishment of the Artificial Intelligence Task Force last year, India has taken its first step in the simulated world of immense possibilities. The Ministry of Commerce and Industry has submitted a detailed report speaking about the usage of Artificial Intelligence in multiple fields and its aim to transform India’s economy. The report submitted by the Ministry is meticulous and invariably states all the aspects of human existence like pharmaceuticals, Defence, technology, household, entertainment, education, environment, farming, finance and many more. The report mentions the usage and benefits of Artificial Intelligence in all these arenas. It is definitely […]

The future of factory jobs

The future of factory jobs

Not your grandfather’s manufacturing: Industry 4.0 is giving Singapore manufacturing a new lease of life – but with different jobs in tow. Can the skills keep up? BT ILLUSTRATION: SIMON ANG

PEOPLE are usually surprised when they find out that 49-year-old Azizul Syed is an assistant robotics engineer.

"Most would expect someone much younger – they are either supportive or sceptical," says Mr Azizul, who has worked for more than 20 years in German sensor manufacturing firm Pepperl+Fuchs. But he takes their expectations and assumptions in his stride. As an industry veteran, he has seen first-hand how the manufacturing landscape has […]

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 […]

What to Know About Industry 4.0

What to Know About Industry 4.0

As industries continue to bring digital technology into the workspace, especially in manufacturing, business reporters have a wealth of stories to cover. (Photo: Pixabay.com user akso147) For a while now, it has seemed that progressing technology has put society one step closer to the next great transformation.

These types of transformations are certainly taking shape when it comes to manufacturing things, as many herald the fourth industrial revolution, or Industry 4.0.

Industry 4.0 is the continuation of bringing digital technology into the workspace, especially in the manufacturing industry, and is something that is actively taking shape in communities around the […]

Staying on top of the robots

Staying on top of the robots

Lee Jong-wha
*The author, a former chief economist at the Asian Development Bank, is a professor of economics at Korea University.

South Korea topped the list for concentration of industrial robots in the manufacturing industry in 2016, with 631 multipurpose robots for every 10,000 workers. This far outpaced the worldwide average concentration of working robots, which was just 69. As the role of robotics and artificial intelligence in our everyday lives grows, so does concern about the future job opportunities for human workers.
Recent advances in computing and IT and the acceleration of automation are believed to contribute to rises […]

Understanding Moravec’s Paradox And Its Impact On Current State Of AI

Understanding Moravec’s Paradox And Its Impact On Current State Of AI

Moravec’s Paradox is named after AI researcher Hans Moravec who authored a paper in the 1980s which theorised that low-end tasks require more complex computational power to be automated. In the current context, his theory is coming to fruition with leading IT giants like Amazon and Google; or Microsoft’s virtual assistants understanding speech and solving queries. Ramkumar Balasubramanian, science associate director at Accenture observed in a post that while it is easier to program a task done by high-end database administrators, it is difficult to replicate the task of a service desk agent. Moravec, who is also an adjunct […]

Exploring AI, Automation & The Future of Work

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Manufacturing jobs: key link of value chain weakens in last five years

Manufacturing jobs: key link of value chain weakens in last five years

LAHORE: Manufacturing sector grew at a healthy pace during Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) government, but still couldn’t create jobs correspondingly as most of that growth was technology-intensive, which requires fewer human resources.

The cumulative jobs provided by buoyant sectors like automobile, sugar, cement and fertiliser are less than what were offered by apparel sector of textiles.

As far as manufacturing sector is concerned we can term it as jobless growth. The jobs lost in textiles were not created in other manufacturing sectors. In the large-scale manufacturing sector the trend is to enhance technology. The advent of artificial intelligence and robotics is […]