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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: 3, Interesting) by maxwell demon on Tuesday October 07 2014, @06:40PM

    by maxwell demon (1608) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday October 07 2014, @06:40PM (#103249) Journal

    Well, maybe those jobs are among those which will get automated by 2025. ;-)

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