According to the OECD, since 1967, the share of men aged 25 to 54 without work has more than tripled, from 5 percent to 16 percent. But the reasons they are not working have less to do with the rise of the machines than we are being led to believe. Not only will machines compete for positions, but global population growth and a rather stunted job market will make competition … [Read more...] about If a Robot is Going to Take My Job, Should it Pay My Taxes?
robotics
AI Europe – London 2016
Next December 5th'and 6th'in London, AI Europe will bring together the'European AI eco-system'by gathering'new tools and future technologies appearing in professional fields'for the first business-oriented Artificial Intelligence exhibition in Europe. Artificial Intelligence will profoundly transform every field in every industry across the world, breaking grounds … [Read more...] about AI Europe – London 2016
To Fear or Not to Fear Robots, That’s the Question
For all of us who follow with interest the progress of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Robots, the recent news about the victory of Googles AlphaGo against grandmaster Lee Se-Dol has made us think if we face the evolutionary moment in which technology finally triumphed humanity and it was Google who just proved how unpredictable artificial intelligence can be. To Fear or Not … [Read more...] about To Fear or Not to Fear Robots, That’s the Question
The Rise of Robots and AI, are They Taking Over the World?
Atlas from Boston Dynamics (a subsidiary of Google) is a pretty resilient chap, judging by this video. He can trudge through uneven snow, be knocked off his feet and get up again (in an eerily similar way to the film Real Steel), and perform the sorts of menial tasks that might take place in any warehouse or shop storeroom across the country. In fact, it is hard to believe that … [Read more...] about The Rise of Robots and AI, are They Taking Over the World?
Could A Robot Take Your Job?
The BBC in the UK recently published a study of over 350 professions, ranking them in order of the likelihood of a robot being able to do their job in the near future. The data, gathered by Oxford University academics Michael Osborne and Carl Frey, judged each position against 9 key parameters of artificial intelligence and machine learning in order to compile the rankings. The … [Read more...] about Could A Robot Take Your Job?
