Lower and middle-skilled roles, such as routine manual or data processing jobs, are at risk from developing AI, according to a report published by the Government Office for Science. Outlining some of the possible implications of AI, the report says new technologies such as machine learning, robotics, big data and autonomous systems could have huge implications for the economy and labour markets. It reads: "These technologies together can be seen as part of a new wave of'general purpose' digital technologies, comparable to the steam engine, and the moving assembly line, with the potential to drive significant socio-economic change." The extent and speed at which new technologies will impact the labour market is still uncertain, however. While a Deloitte study quoted by the report found that 35% of UK jobs will be affected by automation over the next 10 to 20 years, the OECD said only 10% of jobs are at risk.

Replace polling with artificial intelligence… or this monkey posted at 7:01 pm on November 12, 2016 by Jazz Shaw We could spend all day analyzing what went "wrong" in the 2016 election, specifically how the major polling outfits missed by that much and did so almost uniformly. In fact, we already have done that here, as has everyone else. Four days should be a sufficient amount of time for navel gazing even on a subject of this magnitude, so it's time to move on to the solution. Let's just do away with the pollsters for elections. What's going to be a lot more fun is when we can replace them with artificial intelligence which bases its results on tweets and Facebook updates.

Industries from health care to the legal sector face being being disrupted by the latest advances in robotics and artificial intelligence (AI), an expert warns, prompting a renewed warning in the wake of Donald Trump's US election victory. Jon Williams, an analyst with professional services firm PwC, said governments in Australia need to have a serious debate about how to prepare for huge changes in the workforce. "I think over the next couple of years, governments have to develop policies that allow them to support the development of new jobs and new industries or we'll see what we saw in the recent US election, where there's a huge disaffected group whose job in a factory disappeared and they haven't been able to replace it," Mr Williams told the ABC. "The next five to 10 years will see jobs in the professions, in medicine, in the legal profession, in professional services starting to be replaced by computers and robots and machine learning." Seven months after the biggest robotic drug dispensary in the southern hemisphere went live at Perth's Fiona Stanley Hospital, pharmacist Ken Tam is keen to talk up the benefits.

His dire warning pertains to a mixture of machine-learning AI and rather "vulnerable" systems that lay the foundation of the internet. Musk said that the future of cyber warfare may not be waged with humans and our weapons, but with AI systems. Just recently, an unknown group of hackers launched a massive "distributed denial of service" (DDoS) attack that took down part of the internet in the West. Analysis of the incident confirmed that the hackers used a huge "botnet," or a system of computers, that comprised simple internet of things (IoT) devices to overload the systems of Dynamic Network Services (Dyn), a firm that is part of the internet address system. These systems provide DNS services to websites, both big and small, such as Spotify, Netflix, Twitter, and Reddit.

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IBM: AI Should Stand For'Augmented Intelligence' In response to a White House request for information about how to utilize artificial intelligence (AI) for the public good, IBM argues we should focus on a different sort of AI, augmented intelligence. In May, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy announced a series of workshops focused on advances in AI, to explore the benefits and challenges of the technology, while also committing to the deployment of AI to improve government services. AI has made great strides in the past few years, after decades of unfulfilled promise. It's hard to find a major technology company today that isn't looking at AI-related disciplines like machine learning, natural language processing, image recognition, and neural networks as potential sources of growth, efficiency, and innovation. Everyone working with information technology, if not already dealing with some form of AI, can expect to be doing so soon.

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LISBON Investors believe it is "inevitable" that artificial intelligence will destroy millions of jobs and that governments are unprepared for such an impact, according to a survey published on Thursday. Artificial intelligence (AI), or the process by which computers or robots take on tasks that need human intelligence, is one of the key themes of this week's Web Summit in Lisbon. The poll among 224 venture capitalists attending the conference showed 53 percent believed AI would destroy millions of jobs and 93 percent saw governments as unprepared for this. The survey also found that 83 percent of the investors canvassed expect Britain's exit from the European Union to damage Europe's economy and 77 percent believe it will damage British startups. London is widely seen as the main tech startup hub in Europe, thanks to its large pool of talent and a much bigger pool of funding than in rival centres.

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