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Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
The skills gap is widening between people and AI.
Artificial Intelligence is apparently ready to get to work. Over the next three years, as many as 120 million workers from the world's 12 largest economies may need to be retrained because of advances in artificial intelligence and intelligent automation, according to a study released Friday by IBM's Institute for Business Value. However, less than half of CEOs surveyed by IBM said they had the resources needed to close the skills gap brought on by these new technologies.
"Organizations are facing mounting concerns over the widening skills gap and tightened labor markets with the potential to impact their futures as well as worldwide economies," said Amy Wright, a managing partner for IBM Talent & Transformation, in a release. "Yet while executives recognize severity of the problem, half of those surveyed admit that they do not have any skills development strategies in place to address their largest gaps."
[...] IBM says companies should be able to close the skills gap needed for the "era of AI," but that this won't necessarily be easy. The company said global research shows the time it takes to close a skills gap through employee training has grown by more than 10 times in the last four years. That's due in part to new skills requirements rapidly emerging, while other skills become obsolete.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 09 2019, @06:34PM (11 children)
Entry level jobs are supposed to be for high school kids to prove they can handle responsibility, not to offer a livable wage.
(Score: 1, Troll) by DannyB on Monday September 09 2019, @06:48PM (4 children)
That was then, this is now.
Entry level jobs are supposed to be for
twentythirty somethings in mom's basement who must buy video games or snack foods for video games.To transfer files: right-click on file, pick Copy. Unplug mouse, plug mouse into other computer. Right-click, paste.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by ikanreed on Monday September 09 2019, @07:02PM (3 children)
I mean, they're in their parents' basement because they're on fucking $8 an hour while rent is 1.2k a month.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 09 2019, @07:19PM
You dont have to leave the basement to make $8/hr.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by DannyB on Monday September 09 2019, @07:36PM (1 child)
First, I agree that the minimum wage should be increased. Businesses complain, but in fact, it turns out that everyone has more money to spend and it is good for business.
Second, I am just reflecting my stereotype that there is a subset of people who seem to feel entitled to be supported by society forever. They need to work. (I could quote the bible: If a man will not work, he should not eat.) I also recognize that some people legitimately cannot work.
Something has clearly gone off the rails in our society when so few hoard the vast majority of the planet's resources (aka wealth) while everyone else struggles for a bit of the remaining resources. I think that is a big part of the real problem more than the minimum wage. There may be enough to go around, but too much of it is hoarded and wastefully used.
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(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 09 2019, @07:42PM
There is no mystery about that something... The federal reserve creates money out of thin air and loans it to their friends, who loan it to their friends, etc. It cant be any more obvious.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 09 2019, @08:30PM (4 children)
Bull. For that to work there should have been less entry level positions than actual jobs in every industry since rejecting an applicant should be the exception. But right from the Ford factory days, you had 100 entry level jobs for every management job. There was never any hope for promotion. Never a chance for a livable wage when working normal hours. White voters were told it's for minorities and white trash so they supported it. Black people were told they'll be able to afford their kids a higher education if they save it properly.
Black people got screwed over. White people got screwed over. The poor got poorer. The middle class got poor. The rich got richer. News at 11.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 09 2019, @08:44PM (3 children)
Entry level is stuff like janitor or stocking shelves or mowing lawns, not working around heavy machinery.
(Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Monday September 09 2019, @10:02PM (2 children)
Entry level is stuff which does not require great amounts of skill or thinking to achieve basic tasks which do not require an expert to supervise. "Heavy machinery" has nothing to do with it, because many machines can be operated by rote and without skill for basic preset tasks. "Entry level" implies that there are higher levels to which one might aspire, although the term is also frequently used to describe jobs for which the lowest tier of pay a company offers. Menial jobs which get one's foot in the door and are an entre to a company are not necessarily 'entry level.'
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 09 2019, @10:15PM (1 child)
You are not going to give someone you don't know with no work references access to a million dollar piece of heavy machinery. You are going to make sure they are at least minimally reliable by giving them simpler tasks to complete first where they can't cause much damage if they mess up.
(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Tuesday September 10 2019, @03:58AM
Heavy machinery doesn't have to cost a million dollars. You can get an entry level CNC Mill for around $60k. You program it, set it up, and hire someone off the street to swap parts and hit the green button.
Or you can have a robot swap parts for about another $60k.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Tuesday September 10 2019, @05:17AM
And to train people in the skill of greeting people with a standardized phrase [youtube.com] while maximizing attitude and minimizing bloodshed.