AI and the future of work: will Artificial Intelligence affect the workforce? - The Hindu

Experts thought that Artificial Intelligence (AI) would first automate the menial tasks. For eight straight years, Elon Musk has promised full self-driving capabilities in his Tesla cars. There has been significant progress towards this goal, mostly by companies other than Tesla. But sipping chai as an autopilot drives us from Marina Beach to Mylapore is still a future too far away. We may have made terrific -- or terrifying, depending on how you see it -- progress on another front.