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4 Assumptions about risk you shouldn’t be making
Thursday, 1 September 2016
Harvard Business Review
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” The line is instantly recognizable as the conclusion of “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost.
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Forget the robots – here come the geminoids
Thursday, 1 September 2016
USA Today
Androids, geminoids and old-fashioned robots roamed the halls of the South by Southwest Interactive Festival this weekend in a plethora of sessions and demonstrations. They posed a strong argument that a robotic future is not coming – it’s here.
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What it takes to be human
Thursday, 1 September 2016
The New York Times
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Herbert A. Simon, a Nobel laureate in economics “for his ground breaking research into the decision-making process within economic organizations.”
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China troubling robot revolution
Friday, 26 August 2016
The New York Times
In 2014, Chinese factories accounted for about a quarter of the global ranks of industrial robots — a 54 percent increase over 2013. According to the International Federation of Robotics, it will have more installed manufacturing robots than any other country by 2017.
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Economic growth isn’t over, but it doesn’t create jobs like it used to
Friday, 26 August 2016
Harvard Business Review
Robert J. Gordon, an economist at Northwestern University, has recently published an important new book, The Rise And Fall of Americal Growth which argues that the U.S. has entered a new age of stagnation in which our hopes for an ever more prosperous future will largely evaporate. While Gordon’s argument is often characterized as being the opposite of the one I have made in my two books about the impact of advancing automation technology on the job market (most recently, Rise of the Robots), there are many areas in which I think we would agree.?
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Guess who is coming for your job
Friday, 26 August 2016
CNN
Martin Ford: Concerns about artificial intelligence should be taken seriously. In the immediate future, the risk that you’ll lose your job to a machine is real. 47% of U.S. employment – well over 60 million jobs – could be automated in coming decades.
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