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AI Dominates PM Modi’s ‘Mann Ki Baat’ Talk Show This Month

AI Dominates PM Modi’s ‘Mann Ki Baat’ Talk Show This Month

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s monthly address ‘Mann Ki Baat’ on Sunday held a whole bunch of surprises for the new tech community, because the PM specifically spoke about the use of machines that Advertisement Opening his address by referring to noted Indian scientist and Nobel Prize winner Sir CV Raman, PM Modi reiterated his earlier remarks about science being “neutral” , that is possessing the power which humans chose to give it. He also added that the machines were getting smarter through self learning and urged researchers to make use of artificial intelligence to make the lives of the […]

Automation spurred by skilled worker shortage, business experts say

By RILEY MURDOCK
Capital News Service

LANSING — “I just bought a million-dollar robot, and it’s replacing 32 people and it never calls in sick.”
This is what a Michigan business owner recently told Rob Fowler, president and CEO of the Small Business Association of Michigan.As technology improves by leaps and bounds, automation is increasingly replacing human labor to make things in Michigan. The implications of automation are enormous, even changing the nature and definition of “work.”“It’s sort of moving from making stuff with our hands to running machinery and equipment that makes stuff, to managing and repairing and […]

The Future of Work is History

The Future of Work is History

When imagining the future of work, one’s mind might wander to a scene right out of a science fiction movie. Flying cars, autonomous robots, or computerized cities may even cross the mind. But with every prediction, we ought to use the past to understand and evaluate the present and even the not-so-distant future. Using the past to guide the future allows society to prepare for the anticipated impact of change, be it to individuals, or entire communities.

Today’s innovation in the field of automation and progress in developing artificial intelligence has incited an atmosphere of both excitement and dread as […]

Rotterdam water service line breaks, disrupts service

Rotterdam water service line breaks, disrupts service

Photographer: Shutterstock Where did all the jobs go? Well, we’re finally starting to find some satisfactory answers to the granddaddy of all economic questions.

The share of Americans with jobs dropped 4.5 percentage points from 1999 to 2016 – amounting to about 6.8 million fewer workers in 2016.

Between 50 and 70 percent of that decline probably was due to an aging population. Explaining the remainder has been the inspiration for much of the economic research published after the Great Recession.Economists and politicians have pointed at immigration, China, video games, robots, opioids, universities, working spouses – everything up to and including […]

The Future of Organizations – Essays from GTS 2018

The Future of Organizations – Essays from GTS 2018

The Flexible Future of Organizations

Presenter: Shanthi Flynn, Chief Human Resources Officer, Adecco Group

We live in a dynamic, rapidly changing environment where change is not only persistent, but also accelerating. In fact, it is this constant rate of change that has caused the majority of traditional work infrastructures to begin losing their rigidity, leading to an increasingly unpredictable job landscape. In order to survive in this landscape, therefore, it is vital for both organizations and people to remain flexible and agile, as well as possess the ability to constantly reinvent themselves in an effort to successfully navigate the […]

Automating jobs is how society makes progress

Automating jobs is how society makes progress

Analysts discuss the automation of jobs as if robots are rising from the sea like Godzilla, rampaging through the Tokyo of stable employment, and leaving only chaos in their wake.

According to data from PWC , 38% of jobs in the U.S. could become automated by the early 2030s. Meanwhile, a report from Ball State University’s Center for Business and Economic Research warned that half of all American jobs could be replaced by automation.

These prophecies of doom fail to recognize that automation and increased productivity are nothing new. From the cotton gin to the computer, automation has been happening for […]

Fewer Americans are working. Don’t blame immigrants or food stamps.

Fewer Americans are working. Don’t blame immigrants or food stamps.

Prisoners wait for breakfast at California Men’s Colony prison in San Luis Obispo, Calif., in 2013. Rising incarceration rates are one of a handful of factors that help to account for the United States’ missing jobs. (Andrew Burton/Getty Images) Where did all the jobs go? Well, we’re finally starting to find some satisfactory answers to the granddaddy of all economic questions.

The share of Americans with jobs dropped 4.5 percentage points from 1999 to 2016 — amounting to about 6.8 million fewer workers in 2016.

Between 50 and 70 percent of that decline probably was due to an aging population. Explaining […]

The future of jobs: Why India must embrace the new era of artificial intelligence, blockchain and robots

The future of jobs: Why India must embrace the new era of artificial intelligence, blockchain and robots

The ancient Chinese game Go, which has a very high number of possible moves, was considered almost impossible for a computer to beat humans two years ago. Last year Alpha Go (a Go programme designed by two Go players) beat the best professional Go Player Lee Sedol in a five game match. Machine learning had breached even the bastion of strategic thought. Chad Crowe Impossible Foods, a fourth industrial revolution technology company, makes a plant based food that smells, tastes, looks like real meat. It threatens the future of the $90 billion meat industry. If only 20% of world […]

The Future of Work

The Future of Work

With automation poised to put millions out of work, economists debate if growth can create enough new ones.

Since the 1970s, automation has eliminated the jobs of millions of bank tellers, retail cashiers, travel agents, airline front-desk workers and manufacturing employees. With the jobs of truck drivers, airline pilots and even medical doctors now at risk as well, it sometimes feels as if every human job except those of computer coders is destined to disappear. Compass examines the jobs at risk and the forces at work. Gantry cranes load containers onto automated guided vehicles (AGV) during the testing […]

Will robots take your job? Humans ignore the coming AI revolution at their peril.

Will robots take your job? Humans ignore the coming AI revolution at their peril.

Digital Innovate Electronics Network Concept Automated technologies have already influenced numerous fields, placing pressures on job vacancies and regular employment. Certain positions within the organisations will also likely become redundant.

Robots have revolutionised industrial manufacturing and now they are being showcased for food production and restaurant kitchens. Artificial intelligence (AI) machines today can do multiple tasks where learning and judgement are needed.

The present phase of increasing automation is believed to forge new type of jobs for those that have been made redundant, similar to that of the third industrial revolution. However, the dissimilarity is that today’s AI technology has […]