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If you are looking for an answer to the question What is Artificial Intelligence? and you only have a minute, then here's the definition the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence offers on its home page: "the scientific understanding of the mechanisms underlying thought and intelligent behavior and their embodiment in machines."

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Labour and Artificial Intelligence: Visions of despair, hope, and liberation

#artificialintelligenceJun-6-2017, 03:20:14 GMT

In the United States, job demographic data from censuses since the 1900s reveal a startling fact. Despite the two post-Industrial revolutions of electricity and computers, the occupations with the largest employment numbers are still jobs for drivers, retail, cashiers, secretaries, janitors etc, i.e. old professions needing simple skills and mostly repetitive work. This lack of transition to "newer" jobs is a global phenomenon, especially in the global south. India, for example, has half of the working population doing agriculture. One must grasp the significance of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in this context.

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