Tag: Technical

AI vs your career? What artificial intelligence will really do to the future of work

AI vs your career? What artificial intelligence will really do to the future of work

Jill Watson has been a teaching assistant (TA) at the Georgia Institute of Technology for five years now, helping students day and night with all manner of course-related inquiries. But for all the hard work she has done, she still can’t qualify for outstanding TA of the year.

That’s because Jill Watson, contrary to many students’ belief, is not actually human.

This ebook, based on the latest ZDNet / TechRepublic special feature, advises CXOs on how to approach AI and ML initiatives, figure out where the data science team fits in, and what algorithms to buy versus build.Created back in […]

COVID-19 and the case for the universal basic income

COVID-19 and the case for the universal basic income

President Donald Trump signs the coronavirus stimulus relief package in the Oval Office at the White House on March 27, 2020, in Washington, as his aides and political allies watch. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) The idea of a universal basic income (UBI), also called a citizen’s dividend or national dividend, has a long tradition going back to Thomas More’s “Utopia” in the 16th century, and Thomas Paine, one of the US founding fathers in the 18th century. Among other prominent advocates have been the 19th-century British philosopher Bertrand Russell and, under the guise of negative income tax, even American neoliberal […]

Is Coronavirus Pandemic Accelerating the Digitalization and Automation of Cities?

Is Coronavirus Pandemic Accelerating the Digitalization and Automation of Cities?

For nations worldwide, the course of action to fight the spread and effects of coronavirus COVID-19 has been to implement quarantines; restricting the movement of the general population while isolating people infected by the disease, albeit indefinitely. The result: both public and private spaces have closed in a bid to curb the number of new cases. At the same time, the rising number of deaths has added to both social and economic uncertainty, with people across the globe asking "how are we going to work?" or, better yet, "how are we supposed to eat?"

For many work places, " home […]

What Companies Need to Do to Improve Working Conditions for Women

What Companies Need to Do to Improve Working Conditions for Women

Society Ellen Kossek is one of America’s leading social scientists, with an extensive career examining employment practices to advance gender equality and diversity. Her upcoming book, Creating Gender-Inclusive Organizations: Lessons from Research and Practice , is a collection of a series of essays from the nation’s leading researchers and practitioners on gender inclusion in the workplace.

The book offers empirically based guidance for HR leaders seeking pathways to harmonious and inclusive working environments that unleash the enormous potential to be gained from a truly diverse workplace. It doesn’t shy away from some contentious issues, such as addressing the near-total absence […]

Why Students Must Be Well-Skilled And In Sync With Technological Demands

Why Students Must Be Well-Skilled And In Sync With Technological Demands

As digital gains ascendancy in the global jobs market, students and job aspirants need a combination of digital, technical and soft skills to retain relevance in the coming years. Even as one reads this, the world of industry and technology is evolving swiftly. Conversely, education has not kept pace with these ongoing universal changes in what is typically termed Industry 4.0. In this new epoch, artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, big data analytics, machine learning and cloud computing are all playing a pivotal role.

Naturally, if the educational curriculum and students’ skill-sets are not in sync with the requirements […]

Automation to transform manufacturing employment landscape by 2034

Automation to transform manufacturing employment landscape by 2034

Over 60 per cent of Australia’s manufacturing jobs will potentially be impacted by automation technologies over the next 15 years, according to a new report.

Thirty per cent of existing manufacturing jobs will be totally automated and 33 per cent of jobs in the sector will be augmented by technological change by 2034, according to the report from the Australian Computer Society (ACS), the professional association for the nation’s technology sector, and Faethm, a software as a service artificial intelligence platform

The report, Technology Impacts on the Australian Workforce , also indicates that automation technology could add an additional 122,000 jobs […]

Commercial Objectives in the Age of Automation

Commercial Objectives in the Age of Automation

When I was 17 years old, back in 1971, I sold orange juice near a busy street corner in New York City. My job was to stand out in front of a fruit stand and dispense quarts of OJ from a machine. It was pretty simple: keep the hopper on the top of the machine filled with oranges and keep the supply of quart jars steady. Then, when a customer came by to make a purchase, I filled a quart jar with juice, took the customer’s money and rang up the sale in the cash register.

That was my job, […]

Contra the Skeptics, Trade and Technology Really Do Benefit Most American Workers

Contra the Skeptics, Trade and Technology Really Do Benefit Most American Workers

Figuring out how to help the minority being left behind is policymakers’ most urgent challenge.

As we plunge into another presidential-election year, one key point of contention will be the state of the American worker: Are most Americans getting ahead in today’s increasingly high-tech, globalized economy, or have wages and incomes “stagnated” for middle-class and blue-collar workers?

Progressives on the left and economic nationalists on the right seem to share a common view that most American workers are worse off today than in past decades. Trade and technology, they say, are largely to blame. Their favored policy prescriptions range from […]

Einride Hires the First ‘Remote Autonomous Truck Operator’ in the Industry and the Company is Looking to Hire More

Einride Hires the First ‘Remote Autonomous Truck Operator' in the Industry and the Company is Looking to Hire More

While advances in technology and automation are replacing jobs once performed by humans, progress also creates new opportunities, offering people a chance to learn and apply new skills to take on high-tech roles. As autonomous driving technology slowly makes its way into the freight transport, there are some truck drivers who feel threatened that automation or robots will eventually take their jobs away.

However, autonomous transport startup Einride believes that autonomous driving technology will create entirely new job categories and the company is looking to train and hire people for these new high-tech roles. Einride announced today that it hired […]

Report: Most business leaders don’t feel prepared for technological change

Report: Most business leaders don't feel prepared for technological change

There is a concerning lack of readiness for technological change within Australian organisations, according to KPMG Digital Delta.

In its 4th Industrial Revolution Benchmark Report , KPMG said most business leaders are unprepared for the fourth industrial revolution (4IR), and the convergence of the physical, digital and biological worlds.

KPMG Digital Delta surveyed 198 Australian business leaders, gauging their organisations’ uptake and understanding of technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), robotic process automation (RPA) and the Internet of Things (IoT).Produced in collaboration with global analytics platform, Faethm, it found most Australian business leaders lack a deep understanding or experience with […]