Rage against the machine

Rage against the machine

“I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans”, said Claude Shannon, the father of information theory, in an interview to Omni Magazine in 1987. From Alan Turing to Stephen Hawking, many renowned scientists and thinkers have shared a similar concern. But at this juncture of history, automation is helping a few powerful individuals to see humans as pets.

Whether machines will be able to take control of humans in the future is debatable. But these bots are definitely eating up our jobs. In the oil and gas sector alone, profits have risen tenfold […]

Law Firm Asks AI Engine To Draft Answers: ‘Upon Information And Belief… ERROR 404’

Law Firm Asks AI Engine To Draft Answers: ‘Upon Information And Belief… ERROR 404’

If there’s any task in litigation ripe for artificial intelligence to swoop in and take over, it’s the process of answering a complaint. Frankly, drafting an answer is the closest legal work comes to coding — carefully crafting a string of words to guarantee that it’s impossible to “run” any paragraph of the complaint to allow an admission of anything that isn’t absolutely, inarguably true.

It’s also just boring.

That’s where LegalMation’s solution comes in. Another in the arsenal of solutions out there working with IBM’s Watson technology, LegalMation allows the user to drag and drop the PDF of a complaint […]

Over 60,000 jobs in Britain have been taken by robots

Over 60,000 jobs in Britain have been taken by robots

A new Oxford University report projects that up to 15 million jobs could be replaced by robots in the next 20 years.

More than 60,000 jobs in Britain have already been taken over by robots, the research has revealed.

Technological advances have enabled each machine to perform the roles of 3.6 factory workers.It means the 18,500 powered up so far have replaced 66,000 humans, say scientists.And the Oxford University report projects that up to 15 million jobs could be replaced in the next 20 years.But this might not mean widespread unemployment as the nature of the workplace shifts over time.Employees working […]

Robots have taken more than 60,000 jobs from British workers – with 15 MILLION more to go

Robots have taken more than 60,000 jobs from British workers - with 15 MILLION more to go

More than 60,000 posts have been lost because of robots, the report found Tens of thousands of British workers are losing out on jobs because of robots, staggering new research has found.

Researchers at Oxford University say 66.000 positions have already been taken over by 18,500 robots with technological advances enabling each of them to perform the roles of 3.6 factory workers.

And the outlook is looking increasingly bleak for workers, with up to 15 million jobs likely to be replaced in the next 20 years.However, experts do not believe this will lead to mass unemployment because the nature of the […]

AI and Automation in HR: Impact, Adoption and Future Workforce

AI and Automation in HR: Impact, Adoption and Future Workforce

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Artificial intelligence (AI) has been changing our lives for decades, but today its presence is bigger than ever before. Sometimes, we don’t even realize it when a new AI-powered system, tool, or product appears and outperforms us, humans. In fact, AI is affecting human life on all kinds of levels varying from: The automation of tedious, time-consuming tasks to;

The augmentation of human capabilities and; The amplification of human functions. “While most of the use of this AI technology is still elementary at the moment, it is radically transforming […]

Workers face crunch as automotive industry robotises

Workers face crunch as automotive industry robotises

Automation taking over human jobs. South Africa is reviewing its Automotive Production Development Programme (APDP). There are challenges facing this process.

In 1995 the Motor Industry Development Programme (MIDP) replaced the pre-1994 automotive local content programmes. The APDP, whose tenure ends in 2020, was adopted in 2013 to replace the MIDP.

Successive automotive export manuals show that automotive production is South Africa’s largest manufacturing sector. Statistics for 2017 have yet to be publicly confirmed through the release of the 2018 automotive export manual.In 2016, vehicle and components production accounted for 33% of South Africa’s manufacturing output. The industry alone contributed 7.4% […]

We May Not Know When Automation Will Take Over, but the Anxiety Is Already Here

We May Not Know When Automation Will Take Over, but the Anxiety Is Already Here

Future Tense is a partnership of Slate , New America , and Arizona State University that examines emerging technologies, public policy, and society. In an interview last year, Treasury Secretary Steven Munchin told Axios that job automation was “not even on our radar screen,” citing that the risk was still “50-100 more years away.” But even if an employment apocalypse doesn’t come to pass, fear of an automated future may be making Americans sicker today, according to a study published recently in the journal of Social Science and Medicine that shows a correlation between automation risk and worsened physical […]

Can Manufacturing Simultaneously Add Robots and People?

Can Manufacturing Simultaneously Add Robots and People?

In addition to quantifiable gains in productivity and quality, automation has consistently proven to increase something else: anxiety. Robotics, thanks in part to the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) have entered into the general public’s and mainstream media’s consciousness with stories that attempt to predict what jobs might become automated, prompting headlines like these:

Given the general tone of the automation discussion lately, you can understand why the headline for a recent press release from International Federation of Robotics (IFR) caught my attention: Robots Create Jobs—New Research

So, yeah, consider the source—the IFR certainly has a dog in this […]

Ten million British jobs could be gone in 15 years. No one knows what happens next

Ten million British jobs could be gone in 15 years. No one knows what happens next

Plenty of people may not have heard of the retail firm Shop Direct . Its roots go back to the distant heyday of catalogue shopping, and two giants of that era, Littlewoods and Great Universal Stores. Now it is the parent company behind the online fashion brand Very and the reinvented Littlewoods.com. All this may sound innocuous enough. But in two areas of Greater Manchester, Shop Direct is newly notorious.

Until now, what the modern corporate vernacular calls “fulfilment” – in other words, packing up people’s orders and seeing to returns – has been dealt with at three Shop Direct […]

Robots ‘have already taken 66,000 jobs’, says Oxford researcher Carl Frey

Robots ‘have already taken 66,000 jobs’, says Oxford researcher Carl Frey

Cyborg control: robots could cost up to 15m jobs in the UK in the next 20 to 30 years Each robot working in Britain’s factories has cost the equivalent of 3.6 jobs, according to the first study of the impact of modern automation on employment.

The research implies that the 18,500 robots deployed in vehicle manufacturing and other industries have already displaced about 66,000 posts.

Carl Frey, co-author of the research, and Oxford Martin Citi Fellow at Oxford University, said: “Robots, just like technologies of the past, serve to boost productivity growth, but they do not create jobs, so far.“One explanation […]