«Bookkeeping is at a pivotal
point as automation technologies and artificial intelligence are bringing it out of the back office,» noted Receipt Bank CEO Alexis Prenn.
Not exact matches
Van Meter Industrial, a distributor of
automation and electrical products, awards
points for activities such
as participating in its Biggest Loser contest and walking campaigns.
Fashion retailer Zara uses thousands of its stores
as a convenient pick - up and return
point for online orders, but the popularity of «click and collect» led to long lines, prompting a turn to
automation.
The Line Controller also serves
as the integrating
point of single lines into plant
automation systems.
The
automation process also improves accuracy
as it decreases errors associated with human touch
points.
In addition,
as pointed out by David Autor and several other economists, there has been a long - term polarization in the job market since the 1980s, with growth of high - skill and low - skill jobs at the expense of traditional middle - skill jobs, which have been most susceptible to
automation and globalization.
Although this device can be used eventually in an e-reader it is billed
as a solution for ESL (electronic shelf labeling),
Point of Sale, office
automation, and healthcare market applications.
The authors also
point out that, prior to this
automation, credit scoring relied on some questionable metrics such
as how well - kept an applicant kept his or her yard, or their «effeminate gestures.»
«At one
point I had imagined a sort of sprawling Factorio - inspired farm
automation progression, but
as our release window swiftly approaches things like that have been pushed further and further towards the chopping block.»
In brief, the Federal Circuit (1) reiterated its caution against oversimplifying patent claims to the
point that any invention becomes abstract, (2) held that the claim elements must be read
as an «ordered combination,» (3) held that if claimed rules concern a «genus,» then there may be a greater risk of preemption but not necessarily to the extent of unpatentability, and (4) reconfirmed the importance of analyzing the claimed results (in McRO this was the
automation of accurate and realistic lip synchronization).
In addition to illustrating the thread and importance of law in relation to these areas, the GEI report assesses the law at different
points in the
automation cycle — from the developmental stage, when computerisation of an industry begins, to what workers may experience
as AI becomes more prevalent, through to issues of responsibility when things go wrong.
As Furlong
points out, mundane legal tasks that benefit from
automation are quickly moving out of the hands of human lawyers.