Should governments start taxing robots as a way to prepare for a future of mass unemployment brought on by technology?
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Robots are coming for financial services jobs first
By Deb Frey: City jobs will be lost to automation earlier than those in the wider job market, new research reveals.
The first wave of automation arriving in the next two to three years will hit financial and professional services hardest compared to other industries, according to the analysis of more than 200,000 jobs across 26 counties by PwC.
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Experts answer: Who is actually going to suffer from automation
Thanks to rapid advances in the fields of artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics, smart machines that would have once been relegated to works of science-fiction are now a part of our reality.
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Ford patents an autonomous police car that can ticket you
If there’s one patent that I hope an automaker shelves for the remainder of human existence, it’s Ford’s patent for an autonomous police car.
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‘Don’t think a robot could do this’: Warehouse workers aren’t worried for their jobs
The wheels of a tall, metal cart squeak as Chris Beatty, 26, pulls it through a maze of aisles inside a cosmetics warehouse in Burlington, N.J.
Pushbots vs Pullbots: How businesses can step up their game
“Why a Chatbot?”
It’s a simple, three-word question I’ve posed to various entrepreneurs recently, particularly in sectors like FinTech and InsurTech. Some of these entrepreneurs have built a chatbot as a feature, others have developed it as core to their product, and a few even offer to license their chatbot to third parties (Chatbot-as-a-Service).
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Humans will have a ‘robot second self’ in the next 20 years say experts at Microsoft
The digital alter-ego will be AI extension of yourself.
Robots won’t take as many human jobs as you may think
Automation will upend life as we know it. But that doesn’t mean all of our jobs will be completely eliminated. If anything, technology has not liberated people from the drudgery of work. It has created new constraints.
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Pizza Hut says driverless delivery could create more jobs than it destroys
Pizza Hut and Toyota are partnering on an autonomous delivery vehicle called e-Palette that could make the delivery process driverless.
Despite the implications for current drivers, Pizza Hut said driverless delivery could create more jobs than it displaces.
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Nokia’s new sleep system will turn off the lights and lower the temp as you fall asleep
Nokia’s newest health product is a new take on an already-done product.
Pizza Hut is teaming up with Toyota to create self-driving delivery trucks
Pizza Hut has taken its first step toward potentially saying goodbye to the delivery guy.
The pizza chain announced on Monday that it is teaming up with Toyota on a driverless delivery truck that could begin testing by 2020.
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Finally, here’s the ‘Jetsons’ looking robot you’ve always wanted
Sometimes you just want a robot to bring you an ice cold beverage. Or vacuum your house. Or put away all that random shit you left on the floor following an all-night bender precipitated by the realization that you just dropped several thousand dollars on a robot.
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