The Pandemic Is Propelling a New Wave of Automation
With the coronavirus still spreading, companies like Takeda have considered using a quick and simple trick: using software to record tasks like opening files, selecting input fields, and cutting and pasting text. This approach known as robotic process automation (RPA) has resulted in routine paperwork tasks which normally takes weeks to be completed in days….
The End of On-Site Monitoring: How The Pandemic Will Change the Way Engineers Run Their Production Lines
The COVID-19 has swept across the world and upended the way that almost every industry operates. COVID-19 may bring the end of on-site monitoring and greater reliance on artificial intelligence. Already, COVID-19 is accelerating automation in manufacturing and causing companies to use smart manufacturing for improved quality control. Source: Neurisium
Microsoft is cutting dozens of MSN news production workers and replacing them with artificial intelligence
Microsoft is letting go of dozens of news contractors (about 50 in the US, 27 in the UK) after June 30th due to a shift to AI news production on MSN. Some employees, speaking on condition of anonymity, said MSN will use AI to replace the production work they’d been doing. That work includes using…
How Automation Will Impact Job Pattern for Women
According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), about 11% of jobs that are currently held by women are at risk of elimination as a result of AI and other digital technologies. In a 2018 report by PwC, the first algorithm wave of automation has already begun. Under this, women could lose clerical, and service worker…
AI News Index: Replacing Workers Or Creating Jobs?
Recent surveys, studies, forecasts and other quantitative assessments of AI highlight the number of manufacturing jobs eliminated by robots and the impacts of COVID-19 on AI. 59.4% of Americans believe the Covid-19 pandemic will lead to an acceleration of automated workplace technologies within the next year. 66% of organizations are accelerating their migration of analytics…
ProjectHR Podcast: Addressing Technology-Induced Displacement of Employees
Concern that the rise of Artificial Intelligence will eliminate jobs isn’t just techno-fear talking – Technology-Induced Displacement of Employees, or TIDE, is real, it’s happening right now, and it’s projected to continue well into the future. Happily, it’s also something that we can prepare for. On this episode of ProjectHR, Michael Lotito, a Shareholder with…
10 Tech Jobs That Will Shape the 2020s
With potential shifts in job roles and new skills being added to the mix, HR experts posit the skills required 12 months down the line will be exponentially different from those needed today. Among the ten job roles include an AI Ethicist, Data Detective, and AI business development manager. Source: ToolBox
Get Ready For Accelerating Changes In Work Structures
Research for the 2020 Open Assembly Future of Work Trends Report found that skills gaps are widening, companies will use AI to enhance worker capabilities, and the independent workforce will be the norm. Source: Forbes
Robots at Work and Play
Gathered at The Atlantic are recent images of robotic technology, including a machine built to draw portraits, battle robots, a dance performance, an autonomous mobile vending machine, an art installation, an agri-bot, a robotic priest, a Mars rover, a grocery-store bot, and much more. Source: The Atlantic
Automation Is Not A Four-Letter Word
Reports and studies on automation and AI have raised fears about the end of work and the death of the human economy, but the reality is far more nuanced. In the U.K., a Deloitte study found that 800,000 jobs were eliminated as a result of AI and other automation technologies. But that same study also…