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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 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.
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