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How Will Robotics and AI Evolve?

How Will Robotics and AI Evolve?

Precambrian marine life. Source: Ghedoghedo / CC BY-SA 3.0 At certain points in prehistoric epochs, the evolution of life experienced an explosion of diversified organisms within a relatively short time. The so-called Cambrian explosion is the best-known of these diversification events. Scientists have debated the scope and possible causes for the explosion for decades. Fossil records show that between 505 and 542 million years ago, all of our existing biological taxa appeared, forever altering the global ecosystem.

AI and robotics systems may become pervasive in society in the same way. Hundreds of years in the future, historians could look back […]

Make Way for Cobots, the Collaborative Robots

Make Way for Cobots, the Collaborative Robots

Technology Robots collaborate and assemble blocks during a demonstration at the International Robot Exhibition in Tokyo. Automated technology need not replace humans—instead, it can enhance workers’ natural abilities and help make them more efficient.

This is the third article in a weeklong series about artificial intelligence. The previous installments can be read here and here .

Workers don’t have much good to say about robots. They see automation as a threat to their employment, something that will eventually eliminate their jobs and hand the work over to some new robotic creation.They’re not wrong. Unprecedented expansions in computational power, explosions […]

A radical trade prescription from the Federal Reserve: Stop complaining about China, and pay U.S. workers better

A radical trade prescription from the Federal Reserve: Stop complaining about China, and pay U.S. workers better

One doesn’t normally look to the Federal Reserve System for radical economic prescriptions, but it’s a good place to find reasoned economic analysis. A recent economic brief from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis offers both: a solid explanation of the U.S. trade deficit, and advice to stop blaming China for the decline in U.S. manufacturing.

What makes this radical isn’t its substance per se, but its variance from Trump administration orthodoxy. Under the sway of Peter Navarro, an economist from UC Irvine, the Trump White House has treated the U.S. trade deficit with China as the whole economic […]

With automation threatening NY jobs, Gillibrand wants to help affected workers

With automation threatening NY jobs, Gillibrand wants to help affected workers

In this Aug. 3, 2017, photo, packages ride on a conveyor system at an Amazon fulfillment center in Baltimore. While jobs have been lost in brick-and-mortar stores, many more have been gained from e-commerce and warehousing. Amazon accounts for much of the additional employment. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) On the same day a report was released detailing the potential impact of automation on New York jobs, U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand has introduced a bill that would provide aid to workers who are replaced by new technology.

Gillibrand’s proposal would expand the Trade Adjustment Assistance program to include workers affected by automation. […]

Trump delusional on free trade

Trump delusional on free trade

US President Donald Trump speaks to the media as he leaves the G7 summit in Charlevoix, Quebec, on Saturday. (EPA photo) Halfway across the Pacific Ocean, US President Donald Trump heard the closing statements from the G7 summit in Quebec (which he had left early to meet North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un in Singapore).

All the G7 countries had signed up to an anodyne closing communique that papered over the huge gap between the United States and the other six on world trade — but Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau then said once again that he would answer Mr Trump’s […]

Gwynne Dyer | Trump’s trade delusion

Halfway across the Pacific Ocean, Donald Trump heard the closing statements from the G7 summit in Quebec (which he had left early to meet North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un in Singapore).

All the G7 countries had signed up to an anodyne closing communiqué that papered over the huge gap between the United States and the other six on world trade – but Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau then said, once again, that he would answer Trump’s big new tariffs on steel and aluminium imports with new Canadian tariffs hitting US exports just as hard.
He had said it before, including […]

Trump’s trade delusion

Trump's trade delusion

Halfway across the Pacific Ocean, Donald Trump heard the closing statements from the G7 summit in Quebec (which he had left early to meet North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un in Singapore).
All the G7 countries had signed up to an anodyne closing communique that papered over the huge gap between the United States and the other six on world trade ― but Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau then said once again he would answer Trump’s big new tariffs on steel and aluminum imports with new Canadian tariffs hitting U.S. exports just as hard.
He had said it before, including […]

Dyer: Trump’s trade delusion

Dyer: Trump’s trade delusion

Gwynne Dyer is a global affairs columnist whose work appears in KTW on a regular basis. Halfway across the Pacific Ocean, U.S. President Donald Trump heard the closing statements from the G7 summit in Quebec (which he had left early to meet North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un in Singapore).

All the G7 countries had signed up to an anodyne closing communique that papered over the huge gap between the United States and the other six on world trade — but Prime Minister Justin Trudeau then said once again that he would answer Trump’s big new tariffs on steel and aluminum […]

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 […]