
Move over, Photoshop: OpenAI just revolutionized digital image making
By: JEREMY KAHN Read full original here. The creation and editing of photorealistic digital images is about to get much easier. OpenAI, the San Francisco artificial
By: JEREMY KAHN Read full original here. The creation and editing of photorealistic digital images is about to get much easier. OpenAI, the San Francisco artificial
A growing sense of inequality is undermining trust in both society’s institutions and capitalism, according to a long-running global survey. Original post here. The 2020 Edelman
The robots will take the most tedious, most dangerous jobs first, in most things. Trucking is no exception. By: Kyle Stock Original Post: https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/self-driving-trucks-could-replace-90-of-long-haul-jobs Autonomous
Self-checkout, self-service, autonomous stores, DIY: The retail world is prepping for a future with fewer human workers and more technology involved in selling us stuff.
By: WILL KNIGHT Original post can be found at: https://www.wired.com/story/rent-robot-worker-less-paying-human/ POLAR MANUFACTURING has been making metal hinges, locks, and brackets in south Chicago for more than
By: Valerias Bangert. Original article appeared in Venture Beat: https://venturebeat.com/2022/01/08/ai-is-quietly-eating-up-the-worlds-workforce-with-job-automation/ The debate around whether AI will automate jobs away is heating up. AI critics claim that these
By Eric James Beyer Original article: https://interestingengineering.com/ai-mimicking-the-brain-on-its-own In 2019, The MIT Press Reader published a pair of interviews with Noam Chomsky and Steven Pinker, two of the world’s
By Frank Holland Original article: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/08/walmart-is-using-fully-driverless-trucks-to-ramp-up-its-online-grocery-business.html KEY POINTS Walmart and Silicon Valley start-up Gatik said that, since August, they’ve operated two autonomous box trucks, without
by Seth G. Benzell and Victor Yifan Ye Despite clear economic benefits of new digital technologies, slow median wage growth has led many to worry
Companies see automation and other labor-saving steps as a way to emerge from the health crisis with a permanently smaller workforce. UBI is now an
The need for social distancing led restaurants and grocery stores to seek technological help. That may improve productivity, but could also cost jobs. By: Ben
Logistics automation companies say demand has grown during the pandemic as companies cope with big swings in volume and a tight hiring market By: Jennifer Smith
By Catherine Clifford Artificial intelligence will create so much wealth that every adult in the United States could be paid $13,500 per year from its windfall
Some jobs will disappear and others will emerge as the world faces a dual disruption The World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs Report 2020 comes at a
The pandemic accelerates the adoption of automation across industries including the food services businesses. The impact on workers is irreversible. By Greg Nichols. A burger-flipping robot
Owning The Robots By: NATHAN GARDELS Well before the COVID crisis, it was clear that digital capitalism was divorcing income and employment from productivity growth
In his first major speech since leaving office, former President Barack Obama endorsed the idea of providing a universal basic income. Speaking at the Nelson
Emerging technologies like industrial robots, artificial intelligence, and machine learning are advancing at a rapid pace, but there has been little attention to their impact
In his first major speech since leaving office, former President Barack Obama endorsed the idea of providing a universal basic income. Speaking at the Nelson