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Artificial intelligence: ‘Homo sapiens will be split into a handful of gods and the rest of us’

“The fastest-growing occupations in the past five years are all related to services,” he tells the Observer. “The two biggest are Zumba instructor and personal trainer.”


A new report suggests that the marriage of AI and robotics could replace so many jobs that the era of mass employment could come to an end.

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The Future of Work: Less than 10% of People Have Jobs

In; The Future of Work: Less than 10% of People Have Jobs’ I have shared some articles and interviews where Steve talks about what may be a very real future of work.

Five hundred years from now, says venture capitalist Steve Jurvetson, less than 10 percent of people on the planet will be doing paid work. And next year?

In this fascinating article from the MIT Technology Review Steve outline his thinking of where we are headed.

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How robotics will affect the availability of employment and social benefits

On October 26, the Center for Technology Innovation at Brookings hosted a forum to explore the impact of robots, artificial intelligence, and machine learning on the workforce and the provision of benefits traditionally supplied by—or in conjunction with—employers.

http://www.brookings.edu/events/2015/10/26-robotics-employment-social-benefits-west

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Don’t Worry, Artificial Intelligence Has A Long Way To Go: Baidu Scientist

Don’t get overly excited about computers and artificial intelligence replacing humans , at least not yet says Andrew Ng, chief scientist at the Chinese search giant Biadu. Computers are still in the “supervised learning” stage where human input is required to connect dots.

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Intelligent Machines: The jobs robots will steal first

“Martin Ford — author of Rise of the Robots — thinks we face mass unemployment and economic collapse unless we make radical changes, such as offering humans a basic wage, a guaranteed income.”


We are on the cusp of a revolution in the way we work so move over and make room for the robots.

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