Tag: software

Best/worst jobs: Or, the future is here!

Best/worst jobs: Or, the future is here!

We have seen the future when it comes to the best jobs to have. Unsurprisingly, they are almost all generated by the digital age in which we live, and the field of health care that allows us to continue living provided you can afford it — but that’s a story for another day.

The business magazine Kiplinger’s online edition announced its 10 Best Jobs for the Future last week. As the magazine’s Stacy Rapacon points out, “best” for Kiplinger’s takes into account such factors as growth, salary and education required for such positions. “Worst” is exactly the opposite: small or […]

Automation , AI will transform tomorrow’s workforce

Automation , AI will transform tomorrow's workforce

While the use of automation and artificial intelligence technologies is increasing, they will become widely used in the coming years and have a profound impact on the workforce and job security. Many low skill jobs will be lost. Some new highly skilled jobs will be created. Most jobs will be impacted to some degree.

That is the message from a new report from Forrester analyst J. P. Gownder, “Automation Technologies, Robotics, and AI in the Workforce, Q2 2017,” which warns that millions of jobs are at stake as we change how tasks are performed.

Gownder says automation technologies are already reshaping […]

9 forces shaping the future of IT

9 forces shaping the future of IT

Credit: InfoWire.dk IT is on the precipice of unprecedented change. Every company, now in the business of technology, is experiencing glimmers of larger shifts to come: automation, decentralized technology budgets, rapid adoption of cloud-based services, and most recently, artificial intelligence as a business necessity.

Thanks to these emerging and converging trends, technology is increasingly freeing workers from routine tasks, from the warehouse to the C-suite. Massive amounts of data are being ingested in real time, as business decisions are beginning to be offloaded to machines, leaving more time to focus on planning, pursuing leads, and adopting new technologies.

IT stands at […]

Google Funds Automated Journalism In UK

Robots may not be pounding the streets and cornering reluctant sources in the search for scoops anytime soon, but they will be generating a giant volume of basic local news in Britain in the near future, thanks to Google.

The technology giant’s Digital News Initiative has awarded a grant of $805,000 to the Press Association, a news agency in Britain, to fund the creation of a new automatic local news generator. The Press Association will develop the software in collaboration with Urbs Media.

According to partners of the software project, known as “Reporters and Data and Robots” (Radar), it will allow […]

OPINION: Kendall Stanley — Machines, machines and more machines

Get ready for robocalypse.

The word doesn’t really trip easily off your tongue, but you’re probably going to be hearing plenty of it in the coming years and it’s getting the attention of bankers from around the world.

While the bankers at a recent conference weren’t looking at a dystopian future, they were worried that the economic upheaval of artificial intelligence may be more substantial than they’ve been thinking — way more substantial.“In the past, technical advances caused temporary disruptions but ultimately improved living standards, creating new categories of employment along the way,” noted the article on the bankers in The […]

Axios Future of Work

Axios Future of Work

Hi and welcome back to Future of Work. Please invite your friends and colleagues to join the conversation .

Let’s dive right in with a question: 1 big idea: Could robots make us even more polarized?

Sam Jayne / AxiosOver the last decade or so, we’ve seen ordinarily apolitical topics polarize us into angry opposing mobs, among them vaccines, atmospheric gases and Russia. When there has been a super-strong view one way or another, it’s been sucked into the hothouse and associated with an ideology. Charges of fake news and a general deterioration of debate have followed. Checking my […]

North American robotics market growing and creating new types of work, says A3

North American robotics market growing and creating new types of work, says A3

The fast-growing North American robotics and automation market is creating new kinds of jobs, according to the Association for Advancing Automation , or A3.

The association says new technologies, such as collaborative robots and advanced vision systems are driving growth and diversity of employment in the sector.

Jeff Burnstein, who has a number of roles in the association including A3 president, says: “Automation technologies are fueling entirely new categories of jobs – really creating the jobs of the future – in addition to enabling companies to become more productive and create higher-quality products in safer environments.”The association has organised numerous […]

Journalists, look out: Google is funding the rise of the AI news machine in Europe

Journalists, look out: Google is funding the rise of the AI news machine in Europe

Human journalists, start the countdown to your obsolescence (if you haven’t already, that is). Your inevitable robot replacements are picking up steam — and more importantly, sponsorship — with another show of support from the world’s biggest tech company.

Google’s Digital News Initiative (DNI), a fund that promotes innovation in digital journalism in Europe, just announced its latest round of sponsored projects. Among them is RADAR, a collaboration between the UK and Ireland’s Press Association (PA) and Urbs Media , a startup that creates localized news stories using AI.

DNI awarded the RADAR project (which stands for Reporters And Data And […]

How robots, AI and automation are shaking up Iowa’s workforce. Is your job at risk?

How robots, AI and automation are shaking up Iowa's workforce. Is your job at risk?

Take a look at how this sweet Iowa treat is made, and find out how the Country Maid pastry plant in West Bend is increasing it’s production with automation. Michael Zamora (Photo: Michael Zamora/The Register) WEST BEND, Ia. — If one machine goes down inside the Country Maid plant, the whole operation devoted to churning out Butter Braid pastries comes to a screeching halt.

The stainless steel giants that make up the automated production line constantly talk with each other. When something goes wrong at one station, an alert is instantly sent to the next in line, effectively cutting workers […]

The digital divide: why the skills gap must be addressed to tackle inequality

Automation anxiety: the role technology is playing in rising inequality has become a hot topic

In 1821, the eminent political economist David Ricardo remarked: “The substitution of machinery for human labour is often very injurious to the interests of the class of labourers… [it] may render the population redundant and deteriorate the condition of the labourer.” Little over a century later, John Maynard Keynes identified a similar predicament: “Technological unemployment… [is an issue born of] our discovery of means of economising the use of labour outrunning the pace at which we can find new uses of labour.”

Fast-forward another century and […]