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AI assists human intelligence – it doesn’t replace it

AI assists human intelligence – it doesn’t replace it

Technological developments bring forth visionary predictions of questionable value. This reminds me of an opinion in the Talmud that prophecy in our times had degenerated into the occupation of fools – such as predictions of flying cars or swarms of drones delivering merchandise.

But here we turn our attention to a serious subject. Given the increasing power of “artificial intelligence” software, will automation replace human workers at a rate that leads to social instability? I don’t think so. In fact, the question implies a mistaken notion of what artificial intelligence does.

There is hardly an area of industrial activity that has […]

In Colorado, growth industries include manicurists and cell phone tower workers. Surprisingly, some once-important tech jobs are dwindling.

In Colorado, growth industries include manicurists and cell phone tower workers. Surprisingly, some once-important tech jobs are dwindling.

DISH team members Bryan Bren, left, a mobile tower deployer, and Monty Groff, right, director of engineering set up a COW, or Cell On Wheels tower, near the DISH Riverfront Call Center on July 30, 2019 in Littleton. 0

Concerns that robotics, automation and artificial intelligence will displace entire job categories are on the rise. But what occupations have actually fallen in and out of favor in Colorado this decade?

For example, the number of survey researchers in Colorado has dropped by four-fifths since 2009, while the number of cellular tower workers is up eight-fold, according to an analysis from […]

The future of work will be far less frightening when there’s more women in AI

The future of work will be far less frightening when there’s more women in AI

The future is here. Open a web browser. Pick up a newspaper. Search for stories about artificial intelligence and the future of work. While scholarship on the topic is getting increasingly nuanced , you’re still likely to confront dire warnings about how smart machines are coming to take our jobs . Like, all of them.

Tesla and Space X CEO Elon Musk says mass automation is “ the scariest problem ” facing society because “what’s going to happen is robots will be able to do everything better than us … I mean all of us.” AI pioneer and venture […]

How automation and artificial intelligence will affect your job

How automation and artificial intelligence will affect your job

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(Source: The Daily Edition) We’ve long heard that robots are set to take over our jobs, but now new research has revealed which careers are actually at risk. Credit: Getty Images Stock We’ve long heard that robots are set to take over our jobs, but now new research has revealed which careers are actually at risk and which are future-proof – and they’re not necessarily the jobs you would think.

Over the next five years, it’s being predicted that more than 13,500 fewer secretaries will be hired – and sales assistants are also declining fast […]

Tech in Africa: Job killer, or job creator?

Tech in Africa: Job killer, or job creator?

Investment in education is the only way to prevent job automation becoming a fatality (phonlamaiphoto – stock.adobe.com) Everyone agrees jobs is a priority of the 21st century on the continent. But will technology help or hinder? Our experts push aside the distinction to focus on skills, mind-sets and structural reform…

It is the first of May, international day of workers, at the Athlone Stadium in Cape Town. Paul Mashatile, dressed in the trademark yellow and green T-shirt of the ruling African National Congress (ANC), is speaking to a packed audience of trade unionists dressed in red.

“There are many of our […]

Automation leading to fewer midskill jobs such as bookkeepers, IT support workers: Hays

Midskill jobs are declining in many industrialized countries as firms turn to automation, according to a report released by staffing firm Hays plc and Oxford Economics.

“Rapid technological development has enabled machines and software to complete many routine and increasingly non-routine tasks, according to the report. “As the cost of these machines and programs falls, they become increasingly close — and sometimes superior — substitutes for the humans who previously completed the tasks, leading to employment losses in vulnerable occupations.”

Midskill jobs include bookkeepers, paralegals and IT support among others.Technological advances in communication have also enabled further offshoring by industrialized counties, […]

AI Weekly: Automation in the workplace could disproportionately affect women

AI Weekly: Automation in the workplace could disproportionately affect women

Image Credit: ktsdesign/Shutterstock As AI and machine learning transform industries by automating much of the work currently done by humans, women’s careers will be disproportionately affected. That’s according to a McKinsey Global Institute report published earlier this year (“ The future of women at work: Transitions in the age of automation “), which found that in the 10 economies (Canada, France, Germany, Japan, the U.K., the U.S., China, India, Mexico, and South America) contributing over 60% of GDP collectively, an average of 20% of women working today (107 million) could find their jobs displaced by 2030. That’s compared with […]

The Future Of Humans, Taxes and Work

The Future Of Humans, Taxes and Work

It was a day like all others biking down the West Side Highway to work. Then BAM! Right out of nowhere a spandex-clad cyclist slammed into me from behind. I quickly grabbed his handlebars to protect the biker’s cranium from hitting the pavement. He reciprocated with loud shouts questioning my intelligence. When the disturbed human pedaled off, I noticed in his backpack two miniature dogs. Looking down at my bloodied hands, hearing the sad barks in the distance, I pondered the future of society as it races towards automation.

In the recent Democratic debate there was little discussion about the […]

Jobs are changing – and fast. Here’s what trainers and employers must do to keep up

Jobs are changing – and fast. Here’s what trainers and employers must do to keep up

Technological developments are expected to majorly, and rapidly, disrupt or change the nature of employment. The multiplier effect of these disruptions interacting with each other has led to what has been termed the fourth industrial revolution.

The first industrial revolution took us from agrarian to industrial economies and the second used resources like electricity and steel to create mass production. The third refers to technology advancing from analog and mechanical devices to the digital technology available today.

The fourth industrial revolution represents ways technology has become embedded in societies by the fusion of technologies, or what is known as cyber-physical systems. […]

MIT Future of Work Report: We Shouldn’t Worry About Quantity of Jobs, But Quality

MIT Future of Work Report: We Shouldn’t Worry About Quantity of Jobs, But Quality

Robots aren’t going to take everyone’s jobs , but technology has already reshaped the world of work in ways that are creating clear winners and losers. And it will continue to do so without intervention, says the first report of MIT’s Task Force on the Work of the Future.

The supergroup of MIT academics was set up by MIT President Rafael Reif in early 2018 to investigate how emerging technologies will impact employment and devise strategies to steer developments in a positive direction. And the headline finding from their first publication is that it’s not the quantity of jobs we […]