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Welcome to The Colony: Home of the Industry’s First Integrated Automation Platform

Welcome to The Colony: Home of the Industry’s First Integrated Automation Platform

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As robotic process automation (RPA) platforms evolve, they usually come up against a significant obstacle, one that’s dogged the interaction between humans and computers since the latter became widespread in the enterprise: unstructured data.

That’s a technical term that suggests a random scattering of information but, in reality, it just refers to any data that’s presented to a silicon brain (or bot) that’s in an unexpected format.In most business functions, that occurrence is more common than you might imagine, because although we like to think of modern software and systems as ‘smart’, it doesn’t take much to […]

Listen to OZY’s New Podcast About the Future of the Workplace

Listen to OZY’s New Podcast About the Future of the Workplace

In a new five-part podcast, The Future of X: The Workplace , in partnership with Smartsheet, OZY paints a picture of the workplace to come, from productivity and privacy to social enterprise and the rise of gamification. Listen up on OZY.com , Spotify , Apple or wherever you prefer to stream your audio.

You’ve heard the horror stories. Humans, as a future workforce, are facing extinction. The robots are coming! No job is safe! The prospect of this kind of impending robot revolution can seem daunting.

Fifty years from now, machine learning and artificial intelligence will interact with our lives […]

Your View: Why Andrew Yang is right about risks of automation

Your View: Why Andrew Yang is right about risks of automation

An operator replaces bottles of alcoholic spirits above an automated cocktail maker at an ‘AI: More than Human’ exhibition in London, England. (Leon Neal/Getty) Recently, The Morning Call ran an op-ed urging us to ignore presidential candidate Andrew Yang and have faith that automation is good for the economy (“Your View: Ignore Andrew Yang. Automation is good for our economy,” Nov. 2). The writer concludes by saying that automation will free us to seek “meaningful employment.”

We can assume meaningful employment refers to professional jobs that are mostly service-oriented white collar careers. Guess what? Meaningful employment can be automated too.

For […]

Automating A Job Reddit

Automated underwriting software allows workers to process applications more quickly than before, reducing the need for as many underwriters. The automated, hyper-efficient shop floors of modern manufacturing won’t give Trump much room to deliver on his outsized promises to bring back millions of jobs for his blue-collar supporters. Scripting custom tools to automate material layouts and cost estimates while creating a scale diagram to add to the construction documents for installers. #HBO #VICEonHBO Subscribe to the. Feb 25, 2018 · How To Automation-Proof Your Career. A resume parser cuts your resume into smaller chunks and then categorizes these into […]

2020 predictions about automation and the future of work from Forrester

2020 predictions about automation and the future of work from Forrester

Over 1 million knowledge-work jobs will be replaced in 2020 by software robotics, RPA, virtual agents and chatbots, and machine-learning-based decision management. So predicts research firm Forrester in a new report published today, “Predictions 2020: Automation.” It also estimates that 331,500 net jobs will be added to the US workforce next year, human-touch jobs that require intuition, empathy, and physical and mental agility.

Forrester highlights what it calls “the automation paradox,” predicting that after years of falling, MTTR or Mean-Time-To-Resolution (the time it takes to resolve an IT failure, for example) will increase. This is the result of automating the […]

WiCipedia: Tech Falls High in Happiness Index & the Blue Collar-AI Struggle

WiCipedia: Tech Falls High in Happiness Index & the Blue Collar-AI Struggle

Comment (0) This week in our WiCipedia roundup: Techies are pretty dang happy at work; AI’s effect on female blue-collar workers; college students are majority female though tech workforce lags; and more. Despite tech’s reputation for having double standards for different genders and races, people who work in tech are still some of the most satisfied with their careers. A study from CNBC and SurveyMonkey examined the happiness indexes of different professions, and found that 90% of tech workers are satisfied with their jobs. "With their high salaries, enviable perks, and jobs that really are changing the way the […]

Robots, automation and AI, oh my!

Robots, automation and AI, oh my!

Last month, participants in Columbus VC firm Drive Capital’s second robotics and automation summit spent the day exploring the future.

Whether it was robots that deliver packages, using ant colonies to inspire a redesign of supply chain, or software that simplifies industrial robot programming, those attending Devol’s Dance — including startup founders, executives, investors and thought leaders — shared ideas about the world we’re shaping.

Drive Capital Partner Chris Olsen says he remembers the days of technology investing, where as part of due diligence, you looked in server rooms to see how they racked and stacked their hardware.“Then you could get […]

Your View: Ignore Andrew Yang. Automation is good for our economy

Your View: Ignore Andrew Yang. Automation is good for our economy

Robots weld the bed of a 2018 Ford F-150 truck at the Ford Rouge assembly plant in Dearborn, Michigan. (Carlos Osorio/AP) The presidential debates have featured several candidates with new proposals to curb the threat automation poses to workers. Andrew Yang has his signature Freedom Dividend, giving $1,000 a month to every American to alleviate technological unemployment.

There’s a catch with all of these solutions, though. The problem they’re meant to solve doesn’t exist. Ignatios Draklellis (CONTRIBUTED PHOTO) The idea that jobs are being automated so quickly that it is displacing workers and causing societal dysfunction has become ubiquitous in […]

How Blue Collar Female Workers Benefit From New Technology

How Blue Collar Female Workers Benefit From New Technology

In this Jan. 24, 2019, photo, Zakiyyah Askia installs plumbing at a high rise residence under Recent tech news has evidenced how women are facing increased opportunities in the tech sector which had traditionally been allotted to males. Where bias in the workforce has systematically marginalized women, however, the evidence that women actually have increased opportunities in tech is not hard-fast since automation is also showing that women in blue-collar jobs are being hit hardest by automation and other forms of new technology. Ultimately, men in blue collar fields will likely be hit hardest in the long-run, but how […]

Artificial Intelligence Will Kill Jobs – and Create Them

Artificial Intelligence Will Kill Jobs - and Create Them

The relationship between automation and overall employment growth has been strongly positive over time. Ever since the Industrial Revolution, the automation of tasks once done by humans has raised fears about machines putting humans out of work and creating mass poverty. Happily, history has repeatedly proven the doomsayers wrong. While automation has certainly led to declines in entire industries (and employment in those industries), the relationship between automation and overall employment growth has been strongly positive over time.

There are sound explanations for this positive relationship. One, automation increases labour productivity and therefore raises the income levels of workers. Resulting […]