An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: A new study published by the Brookings Institution takes a closer look at jobs that are the most exposed to artificial intelligence (AI), a subset of automation where machines learn to use judgment and logic to complete tasks — and to what degree. For the study, Stanford University doctoral candidate Michael Webb analyzed…
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What Caused Uber’s Fatal 2018 Crash? NTSB Reveals Its Findings
This week America’s National Transportation Safety Board presented its findings on the fatal 2018 crash of a Uber test robocar with a pedestrian in Arizona. Forbes reports: The NTSB’s final determination of probable cause put primary blame on the safety driver’s inattention. Contributory causes were Uber’s lack of safety culture, poor monitoring of safety drivers, and lack of countermeasures for automation…
The Year of AI: End of Year Round-Up 2019
Trends from 45 million learners on Coursera show nearly two million enrollments in AI-related content in 2019, AI for Everyone breaks into the top ten list in its first year By Dil Sidhu, Chief Content Officer at Coursera When it comes to popularity and demand, tech-centric courses like artificial intelligence and data science consistently rank […]
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Boeing Fires Its Fuselage-Assembling Robots, Goes Back To Using Humans
schwit1 quotes the Seattle Times: After enduring a manufacturing mess that spanned six years and cost millions of dollars as it implemented a large-scale robotic system for automated assembly of the 777 fuselage, Boeing has abandoned the robots and will go back to relying more on its human machinists… The technology was implemented gradually from 2015 inside a new building on…
Security Researchers Exploit Amazon Echo’s Chromium Bug, Win $60,000 Bounty
An anonymous reader quotes TechCrunch: Two security researchers have been crowned the top hackers in this year’s Pwn2Own hacking contest after developing and testing several high profile exploits, including an attack against an Amazon Echo. Amat Cama and Richard Zhu, who make up Team Fluoroacetate, scored $60,000 in bug bounties for their integer overflow exploit against the latest Amazon Echo Show…
IBM: AI Will Change Every Job and Increase Demand For Creative Skills
AI is likely to change how every job is performed, eliminating work related to repetitive tasks but increasing the need for creative thinkers, according to a new study. From a report: These findings are contained in a report released this week by the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab called “The Future of Work: How New Technologies Are Transforming Tasks.” The study found…
Gartner Predictions Reveal How AI Will Change Our World
Gartner research has announced 10 “strategic technology trends that will drive significant disruption and opportunity over the next 5 to 10 years.” And the trends include “hyperautomation” — applying advanced technologies like AI and machine learning to tasks “that once required humans,” combining robotic process automation with intelligent business management software to provide “real-time, continuous intelligence about the organization…with a goal…
Is Andrew Yang Wrong About Robots Taking Our Jobs?
U.S. presidential candidate Andrew Yang “is full of it,” argues Slate’s senior business and economics correspondent, challenging Yang’s contention (in a debate Tuesday) that American jobs were being lost to automation: Following the debate, a “fact check” by the AP claimed that Yang was right and Warren wrong. “Economists mostly blame [manufacturing] job losses on automation and robots, not trade deals,”…
‘There’s an Automation Crisis Underway Right Now, It’s Just Mostly Invisible’
“There is no ‘robot apocalypse’, even after a major corporate automation event,” writes Gizmodo, citing something equally ominous in new research by a team of economists. merbs shared their report: Instead, automation increases the likelihood that workers will be driven away from their previous jobs at the companies — whether they’re fired, or moved to less rewarding tasks, or quit –…
HSE and Coursera Announce Russia’s First Top-Tier Online Master’s in Data Science
By Dil Sidhu, Chief Content Officer at Coursera In a digital-first world, Russia is uniquely poised to benefit from learning technology and data science skills, delivered online to meet the needs of learners anywhere. According to McKinsey, over 50% of work activities are at the risk of automation in Russia. This, coupled with demographic challenges […]
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