In my previous post, I looked at how everything old is new again in regards to
fears about automation taking human jobs.
The challenge ahead for these startups lies in marketing their own products so that the small players can become
educated about the automation software.
There's currently a lot of
talk about automation and artificial intelligence (AI) taking over manual and repetitive tasks.
Read
all about automation in the thought leadership article by Steven Van Geel, TOMRA Sorting Food's sales director for China.
A&C TODAY a bi-monthly
magazine about automation and control and get caught up in the here and now of the fast paced Indian industry.
Before you go out and start using these tools indiscriminately, let's leave you with a pertinent cautionary note
about automation in a marketing campaign.
Sure, I love to read
books about automation and new ways to segment and target an audience, but if it doesn't lead to a behavior change in that audience, it's all for nothing.
The Telescope Collective captured Digifest participants» hopes and fears
about automation at work.
The
discussion about automation at the CLM Conference reminded me of a very good Wall Street Journal article about Artificial Intelligence in the law firm.
But the questions raised by AI are not just
about the automation of processes that once required human thinking, but whether it is possible that advanced systems could one day count as self - aware conscious beings with their own emotions, desires and moral rights.
While unions tend to be
hesitant about automation, they are eager for training programs that can help advance their members» skills, says Daniel Wagner, the director of education, standards, and training for the International Sanitary Supply Association (ISSA), which reviews and validates training programs.
The interviewers from Mosaic Ventures asked
Altman about automation and its potential impact on manual labour and jobs.
One
word about automation, I've said it before that Dollar - Cost - Averaging is a great way of removing emotions from your investment.
JLS» President / CEO, Craig Souser, will be a
speaking about automation in the food industry at the Canadian Meat Council's 2015 Annual Conference, May 6 - 8.
To alleviate this pressure, businesses have to prove real value by making strategic
decisions about automation to enhance performance, and they must create efficient operations that respond swiftly to industry and economic changes.
It may be that the «skepticism» trait, so highly scored amongst lawyers, is exactly the approach needed; to take a step back and think
critically about the automation that's coming and how we can use machines to do things that deepen and strengthen the services we provide to clients.
His post makes two points clear: the law firm is capitalizing on a legal specialization and the project isn't
solely about automation, but rather the integration of people, process and technology.
If voice assistants in the home were really
only about automation and music then Apple wouldn't be viewed as so far behind.
Plus, despite much talk of
late about automation slowly killing traditional jobs, data science is to some degree robot - proof as it demands a human touch to creatively solve problems with the help of computers.
As a silver living, Sharma says this trend has resulted in falling unemployment rates, which calms some fears
about automation replacing workers in developed nations.
As MIT's Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee put it more recently than Keynes in their 2014
book about automation's economic impact, The Second Machine Age: «Our generation has inherited more opportunities to transform the world than any other.
The blurb
talks about the automation of the kitchen and the de-skilling of cooking; for those of us who have always felt de-skilled in the kitchen, this is a dream come true.
«We got an inside look early and were very impressed with where these firms were taking the technology and [how they were] really
thinking about automation of advice in different ways.»
«If you're in the boardroom talking
about automation, you also need to talk about the human impact and put your employees on top of the list.»
So whilst everyone is talking
about automation, automation, automation, I'm on the hunt to find as many ways as I can to humanize my business to make the experience as connected and as engaged as it can be.
«It's all
about automation, so you're going to want to streamline it as much as possible,» Doody says, noting that Bellhops does not accept cash.
What you choose for this depends on your objective, but since we're talking
about automation, I'm going to opt for the «Automatically maximize clicks» option.
Despite all the noise
about an automation and A.I. driven jobless future, small business owners are mostly positive about automation technology.