A good piece on Marketplace on Morning Edition today on NPR Radio. There is a podcast too. [marketplace.org]
New Technology is Automating Jobs with AI (artificial intelligence) and robots
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More work automation is coming
A whopping 47% of jobs are subject to automation between 2010 and 2030
Traditional jobs will go first
New jobs will emerge
We'll always need proofreaders.
As long as humans are typing.
@St-Sinner ummmm, Spellcheck?
@AnneWimsey
Spell check will get better and perfect one day.
Author/Professor Yuval Noah Harari in his book Sapiens coined the term "the useless class." As AI advances, ever-more of us will be. The book is sobering, and I think accurate. AI is going to get us all.......
Very good, thank you. I will get hold of the book.
Some will be retrained and require credentials, other higher payed workers will be fazed out, bought out or offered early retirement to make room for younger lower paid workers.
Correct, and some will go to their graves not accepting the change and not understanding why they don't get jobs. I know some of them personally.