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

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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

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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

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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

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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…

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2020 HR Predictions: Preparing HR Leaders for the Year Ahead

Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer hype. It’s changing the nature of work (and our relationship with technology). HR leaders should feel empowered—not threatened—by AI. The AI-driven automation of rote tasks, for example, will enable workers to make more efficient use of their time, freeing them up to sharpen and focus on uniquely human skills,…

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AI Is About to Spark a Radical Shift in White Collar Work. But There’s Still ‘Plenty of Work for People to Do’

While the story of automation in America has long been told in shuttered factories and declining Midwestern cities, the latest wave of advancements in artificial intelligence may be bring the prospect of machine replacement beyond blue collar work. Knowledge work that involves repetitive tasks or large amounts of data, such as lawyers’ often arduous document…

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