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posted by martyb on Monday September 09 2019, @05:32PM   Printer-friendly
from the Who-trains-the-trainers?-Engineers? dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Tuesday September 10 2019, @01:50PM

    by jmichaelhudsondotnet (8122) on Tuesday September 10 2019, @01:50PM (#892206) Journal

    Changing bosses from a human one to a robot one isn't a form of training, in a way it's just getting used to a meaner, less empathetic boss who could kill you and get away with it.

    They write this like they want to give free college to a hundred thousand plumbers so they can deal with robo-nano-plumber replacements by getting the 4 doctorates in computer science required to design and modify AI code.

    I remember this, it was all the rage in 1992, clinton travelled the entire country giving machists the belief that they were going to be reschooled to work in the air conditioning as typists for twice as much money.

    If you have learned nothing since then, you are going to have a bad time. Anyone not talking about basic income as a means to distribute the technological gains of our species so that a few people who are not in any way responsible for it are individually rewarded, so they can provide us all our own amazon warehouse jobs to work where we will have to hold in our pee and regularly weep while robots zap us while saying 'pick up the pace' in the tone of a harpie.

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