Machine Learning Reveals Employees' Unrealized Skills - Enterprise Irregulars

As human-like machines begin to perform more advanced tasks, we fear that they will replace us, take our jobs even. But the truth is, machines are making our lives easier and allowing us to focus more on what humans do best, such as making subjective decisions and using our emotional intelligence. Robots and machines, in effect, remove the clutter that often causes our productivity to wane and our attention to waver. Rather than fear technology, we should embrace it because it takes care of repetitive--and often mundane--tasks like data collection and processing. In the workplace, machine learning has the capacity to change how managers spot an employee's talent, how employees share their knowledge and how employers decide whom to promote.