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Gartner’s crystal ball foresee an emerging ‘super class’ of technologies.
Gartner sees things like robots and drones replacing a third of all workers by 2025, and whether you want to believe it or not, is entirely your business. This is Gartner being provocative, as it is typically is, at the start of its major U.S. conference, the Symposium/ITxpo.
Smart machines are an emerging "super class" of technologies that perform a wide variety of work, both the physical and the intellectual kind, said Sondergaard. Machines, for instance, have been grading multiple choice for years, but now they are grading essays and unstructured text. This cognitive capability in software will extend to other areas, including financial analysis, medical diagnostics and data analytic jobs of all sorts, says Gartner.
http://www.computerworld.com/article/2691607/one-in-three-jobs-will-be-taken-by-software-or-robots-by-2025.html
What do you think of Gartner's predictions ? What will happen to all the phone sanitizers?
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 07 2014, @12:36AM
Gartner Group's function is to write reports that they charge a ton of money for in order to give managers ass-covering for stupid business decisions. They've been doing it for decades. I wouldn't put any stock in what they have to say, accuracy is not their goal, for-hire CYA is.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Tuesday October 07 2014, @03:09AM
They are more than 20 years to late. But the big question is what kind of (bad) decisions from managers can we expect from this?
(Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday October 07 2014, @12:14PM
Gartner is famous for quietly covering all the bases, so you can pretty much do whatever you feel like, then purchase an indulgence from the church, err, I mean purchase a report from Gartner, that claims you did exactly the right thing and are not to blame for the carnage.
Its not a bad racket. Along the lines of astrology and telephone psychics, just tell the client whatever they want to hear.
Although superficially Gartner is not a terribly useful way to predict the future along the lines of ohms law or newtonian gravitational theory, they do expect to sell this dreck and they may not actually understand or stand for anything, but they do like money, so they think there's a reasonable chance they can sell this report.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Tuesday October 07 2014, @02:48PM
Any bad outfall from this report?
Anyway.. what institute delivers reports actually worth to take notice of?
(Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday October 07 2014, @04:14PM
"what institute delivers reports actually worth to take notice of?"
Honestly I don't think a "consumer reports" exists in the financial / economic world. As in the paycheck of the guy writing the report doesn't directly or somehow indirectly depend on making the client happy.
You probably won't like this, but if you can read critically, and get past the axe grinding, if you read between the lines on the comments on some blogs like zerohedge you can pick up some real information, but its like 99.9% garbage and a lot of work. Fun but mostly a waste of time.
Books are written too slowly and kept on the market too long for a "report" outlook, but if you can look past the axe grinding and look at how / why they hold their axe that way or why they're grinding in the first place, they often have something useful to say, but the gems always esoteric never exoteric.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by maxwell demon on Tuesday October 07 2014, @06:40PM
Well, maybe those jobs are among those which will get automated by 2025. ;-)
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.