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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 bob_super on Tuesday October 07 2014, @04:32PM

    by bob_super (1357) on Tuesday October 07 2014, @04:32PM (#103161)

    Technically, there are enough resources for 10B people, but if we want their children to have anything livable to grow up in, they need to learn to share a lot better and waste a lot less. But that's communism, and we know that doesn't work, because we took a wall down 25 years ago...

    (my two previous comments were sarcastic, that's why I made a Poe's Law reference)

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  • (Score: 2) by mhajicek on Tuesday October 07 2014, @09:38PM

    by mhajicek (51) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday October 07 2014, @09:38PM (#103324)

    Jeeze, 25 years ago? I feel old...

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