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posted by girlwhowaspluggedout on Tuesday March 04 2014, @03:30PM   Printer-friendly
from the ya-tvoy-sluga-ya-tvoy-rabotnik dept.

regift_of_the_gods writes:

"A study that was published last year by two Oxford researchers predicted that 47 percent of US jobs could be computerized within the next 20 years, including both manual labor and high cognition office work. The Oxford report presented three axes to show what types of jobs were relatively safe from being routed by robots and software; those requiring high levels of social intelligence (public relations), creativity (scientist, fashion designer), or perception and manipulation (surgeon) were less likely to be displaced.

This further obsolescence of jobs due to automation may have already begun. The Financial Times describes an emerging wave of products and services from algorithmic-intensive, data-rich tech startups that will threaten increasing numbers of jobs including both knowledge and blue collar workers. The lead example is Kensho, a startup founded by ex-Google and Apple engineers that is building an engine to estimate the impact of real or hypothetical news items on security prices, with questions posed in a natural language. Specialist knowledge workers in many other fields, including law and medicine, could also be at risk. At lower income levels, the dangerous are posed by increasingly agile and autonomous robots, such as those Amazon uses to staff some of its fulfillment warehouses.

 
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  • (Score: 1) by velex on Tuesday March 04 2014, @07:47PM

    by velex (2068) on Tuesday March 04 2014, @07:47PM (#10906) Journal

    I don't think the gender of the waiter/waitress here matters as much as you think it does. I also don't think the gender of the profiteers in the financial sector matter as much as you think it does, either. Besides that, your point is valid.

  • (Score: 2) by edIII on Wednesday March 05 2014, @05:24AM

    by edIII (791) on Wednesday March 05 2014, @05:24AM (#11187)

    I wrote it entirely from the point of view of the waitress, which I believe, is female by definition.

    There are glass ceilings and wage disparity WRT to gender of course, but I will admit, that was mostly used as a "literary device" if you want to call it that.

    I found the attitude that I was responding extremely offensive, simplistic, and patronizing, and it sounded exactly like what some rich person would say trying to justify their position of prosperity and assuage their own guilt (even if it just survivor guilt).

    To be crude, it was like saying, "Yeah. You're getting butt fucked by a telephone pole, but think of all the money you will save on laxatives the rest of your life"

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