Lawmakers are ignoring simple economics in favor of lunatic policies. If it continues, a voter revolution is guaranteed. The government shutdown continues as the debate over a border wall enters its fourth contentious week. Neither side in this has shown any sign of willingness to compromise. This remains a stalemate as of now, the very definition of it, or at least that's what it seems like from the outside.

The rise of robots in the workplace will trigger an'apocalypse' unless it is managed properly, an economics professor has warned. Johannes Moenius from the University of Redlands says mechanisation presents the most serious danger to unskilled workers employed in logistics and the service industry. His comments follow a study from last year that found as many as 44 per cent of work hours could be done by machines by 2030. The mechanisation of the workplace will trigger an'apocalypse' unless it is managed properly, an economics professor has warned (stock image) According to an in-depth feature by Melanie Mason in the Los Angeles Times, automation is shaping the job market like never before. If we don't do anything, then it will turn into an apocalypse', Professor Moenius said.

Former US Treasury secretary Larry Summers recently took exception to current US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin's views on artificial intelligence (AI) and related topics. The difference between the two seems to be, more than anything else, a matter of priorities and emphasis. Mnuchin takes a narrow approach. He thinks that the problem of particular technologies called "artificial intelligence taking over American jobs" lies "far in the future." And he seems to question the high stock-market valuations for "unicorns" – companies valued at or above US$1 billion that have no record of producing revenues that would justify their supposed worth and no clear plan to do so.

BERKELEY – Former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers recently took exception to current US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin's views on "artificial intelligence" (AI) and related topics. The difference between the two seems to be, more than anything else, a matter of priorities and emphasis. Mnuchin takes a narrow approach. He thinks that the problem of particular technologies called "artificial intelligence taking over American jobs" lies "far in the future." And he seems to question the high stock-market valuations for "unicorns" – companies valued at or above $1 billion that have no record of producing revenues that would justify their supposed worth and no clear plan to do so.

We address the problem of acquiring reliable ratings of items such as restaurants or movies from the crowd. We propose a crowdsourcing platform that takes into consideration the workers’ skills with respect to the items being rated and assigns workers the best items to rate. Our platform focuses on acquiring ratings from skilled workers and for items that only have a few ratings. We evaluate the effectiveness of our system using a real-world dataset about restaurants.