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Monday, April 13, 2020

AI and The Future of Technical Work

Useful thoughts about the state and future of automation.    Will it all be described as professional?

Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Professional Work   By Mari Sako

Communications of the ACM, April 2020, Vol. 63 No. 4, Pages 25-27  10.1145/3382743

If you are a software engineer or a data scientist, your job did not exist a century ago. A century from now, your job will most likely look quite different. One driving force behind such work transformation is artificial intelligence (AI). Dwelling on the nearer term, the next decade or two, projections on the proportion of today's jobs that are susceptible to automation vary enormously—from 9% (in OEDC countries)2 and 47% (of 702 occupations)7 to 96% (740 out of 769 occupations).6,8,9 Why is there such wide variation? What makes it difficult to predict with greater precision? And should we alter the way we think about jobs, given that better education is no longer a protection against risk of technological unemployment? This column addresses these questions, so that we might make better decisions about the future of work for our children and grandchildren.   ... " 

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