The technology is here, but are baseball fans ready for robo umps? Human umpires will keep their jobs, but the job will not look the same. The electronic strike zone could be one of the most significant changes to the game, according to the Bleacher Report. Throughout baseball history, players and fans trusted the eyesight […]
Category Archives: Artificial Intelligence
20 Million Manufacturing Jobs Displaced by Machines
Machines are expected to displace about 20 million manufacturing jobs across the world. That’s according to a recent report from global forecasting and quantitative analysis firm Oxford Economics. Because of this, Amazon is helping U.S. workers stay employed in this increasingly automated economy. To do so, Amazon will spend $700 million over the next six […]
Will AI Steal Food and Fashion Jobs?
Teaching artificial intelligence how (in what order) to construct a pizza may lead to bigger things. But can a computer ever replace your favorite pizza maker? Researchers and MIT and Qatar Computing Research Institute built an AI system that can look at a photo of a pizza and deduce whether the sauce, cheese, or toppings […]
Can You Save Your Job from the Robots?
Over the next 15 to 20 years, up to 47 percent of U.S. jobs may be replaced by robots and artificial intelligence. Here’s what you need to know. The job-stealing robots are not the clunky, blue-collar machines of the past. Rather, reports The New Yorker magazine, they are white-collar robots (aka globots) that will come […]
Blended Workforce: The Future of Humans and Robots Working Together
Organizations know that the future workforce will look different, but they’re not preparing as they should. Turns out, humans and robots can make a really good team. Forbes reports that artificial intelligence will eliminate human jobs, but not necessarily as organizations envision it. For example, rather than replace all human employees with technology, companies should […]
Even the comedians are dialed into A.I.
Even the comedians are dialed into A.I. and Robot Job Losses on the horizon, but the last laugh might be on us. Comedian and host of the HBO show Last Week Tonight, John Oliver, aired a segment in which he focused on the theme that children may not be ready for the effects of the […]
White Collar Job Loss to Tech Innovation
Professor Richard Baldwin has been researching Globalization for over 30 years. Without question, he has access to the latest information about how technology is impacting jobs and how its continued development is very likely to do so in future, near and far. Mr. Baldwin has published a new book entitled The Globotics Upheaval which gives […]
Job loss to technology, AI, robotics and blockchain are likely going to dramatically alter the lives of tens, if not hundreds of millions of Americans, for the worse.
Sitting here in 2019, it seems that although jobs are being impacted by technological improvements, the swing to extreme job loss has not occurred. Not yet. Although some well-researched prognostications suggest that the future job loss to technology would be as bad as many others, take for instance the mere 36 million projected in a […]
Will 3D Printers, Robotics, and AI Create Manufacturing Jobs in Ohio?
Northeast Ohio grudgingly said goodbye to traditional jobs and prepares to adapt to the future of manufacturing, starting with 3D printers. Tens of thousands of steel and automobile manufacturing jobs have disappeared from the Youngstown, Ohio region. But local leaders hope that a new wave of industry can revitalize the area, reports CNN Business. Specifically, […]
Reporters on the Growing List of Jobs Being Lost to Artificial Intelligence
Although the over job market in America has remained strong, the long term disruption to a wide number of careers has begun unfolding. The easiest to see are the expected job loses in transportation, with the advent of driverless vehicles, and in warehousing, where robot lifts replace the employees. Less obvious are those careers once […]