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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) by legont on Monday September 09 2019, @09:16PM (3 children)
The policy of the last few decades was to let such people join prison population. Interestingly, they say it cost about $50 per day per medium security inmate. Given that poverty line for a single is around $12000 per year, it's way more economical to let them free with an income.
"Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday September 09 2019, @09:33PM (2 children)
The economy of letting them free may be outweighed by the crimes they may re-commit. Or even simply as a deterrent to others would would commit the same crime they committed. There are some people who simply should not be free regardless of cost. Of course I could mention that the act of capital punishment is economical, but not the judicial process that goes with it.
That said, if someone is non violent and apparently rehabilitated and could be a productive citizen, it would make sense to let them free.
Just musing. As the world becomes more over populated, it will make more and more economic sense for completely defective human beings to simply be removed from the population.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 09 2019, @10:21PM
The crime must if them conjured is being black in America. #BLM
(Score: 2) by legont on Monday September 09 2019, @11:04PM
According to these guys, the problem is actually population collapse https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/30/elon-musk-jack-ma-biggest-problem-world-will-face-is-population-drop.html [cnbc.com]
"Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.