AI will not result in catastrophic job losses The arrival of artificial intelligence into businesses and society are not likely to produce anywhere near the number of job losses most people think, a new AI research report says. Instead, AI may help address potential labour shortages and solve looming demographic challenges. The Artificial … Link to
Here are the 3 main things to know about Amazon's new expansion in Boston The new Boston expansion will include jobs in machine learning, speech science, cloud computing, and robotics engineering. Amazon says the new machine learning jobs will be particularly focused on enhancing the experience of interacting with Alexa. According to the company's website,
Irwin Kraus: Get ready humans, times they are a-changing Artificial intelligence (AI), the ability of computers to serve in place of human workers, was anticipated by scientists in the 1950s and '60s. It was logical … In an article titled “Seven Jobs that Robots Will Create — or Expand,” the WSJ gives us some insight
Tech industry says we shouldn't fear AI A new study shows artificial intelligence could displace up to a million jobs. The New Zealand-based artificial intelligence report considered 58-worldwide AI studies – applying them to a New Zealand landscape. But Tech Industry Association CEO Graeme Muller told Mike Hosking any job changes … Link to Full Article:
Facebook: AI will protect you One of the ways Facebook plans to do this, Shroepfer said, is by investing heavily in artificial intelligence research and find ways to make it work at a large scale without much (if any) human supervision. This is all part of Facebook's plan to write a security "playbook" that other
Employment in the age of automation: Preparing labour with future-ready skills is essential Automation and the growth of technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) are resulting in a better, safer and more efficient world. Investments in … Link to Full Article: Employment in the age of automation: Preparing labour with future-ready skills is essential
What HR must know about recruiting analytics Madhur Mayank Sharma, SAP's head of machine learning for HR, agreed. "The ability to find the right match in the least amount of time possible and enhance the overall recruiting experience for recruiters and hiring managers, as well as for candidates, are some of the key deciding factors
Facebook starts building AI with an ethical compass As a step in that direction, we've integrated the Fairness Flow into our internal machine learning platform," Kloumann said. "Any engineer can plug in to this technology and evaluate their algorithms for bias." Bias is a problem for today's artificial intelligence technology and the machine learning … Link
Harnessing Artificial Intelligence in the Workplace For example, in a March 2017 report (“The Future of Jobs and Job Training”), Pew Research Center analysts made the following observations on the negative effects of AI: “Automation, robotics, algorithms and artificial intelligence in recent times have shown they can do equal or sometimes even better … Link to
Amazon to expand Boston tech hub with 2000 tech jobs Many of the new jobs will primarily be focused on machine learning, cloud computing and robotics engineering, but it's Boston's position as a leader in the field of speech science that might have been the key to attracting the new offices with the rapid growth
