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posted by LaminatorX on Monday October 06 2014, @11:52PM   Printer-friendly
from the with-a-capital-T-which-rhymes-with-D-and-that-stands-for-Drones dept.

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?

 
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  • (Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday October 07 2014, @12:05PM

    by VLM (445) on Tuesday October 07 2014, @12:05PM (#102963)

    Like buying a cat. At least the commitment part, not the insemination part. Probably. Anyway the world is not running out of crazy cat ladies with 175 cats in her house so I don't think this is necessarily a silver bullet. Might help though, true.

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  • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Tuesday October 07 2014, @02:45PM

    by kaszz (4211) on Tuesday October 07 2014, @02:45PM (#103063) Journal

    License parenthood?