tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-97611162024-03-08T00:19:57.798+05:30Words from Web WorkerLifehacking with Technology, Software, Mobile, Mindmapping and Apps.Deepak Ravlanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09789437767809698790noreply@blogger.comBlogger151125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9761116.post-8456235122529919532018-06-15T21:09:00.000+05:302018-06-17T00:39:43.010+05:30Make Dad a Superhero on Father’s Day<h2 class="graf graf--h4 graf-after--h3 graf--subtitle" id="f047" name="f047" style="--baseline-multiplier: 0.22; background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.54); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Geneva, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 28px; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: -0.012em; line-height: 1.22; margin: 5px 0px 22px -1.75px;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Celebrate dad and make the most of Father’s Day with a little help from your Google Assistant.</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Dads are awesome. They teach you how to ride your first bike, sneak you the last cookie when no one’s looking, they make sure there are no monsters under your bed, helping us reel in the ‘huge’ fish, catching us when we stumbled, reading the same book 325 times, and being there for us no matter what. Dads are pretty awesome. Often the unsung heroes of couch-fort building, light bulb replacing, family movie nights, impromptu dance parties and fixing broken things, Dad doesn’t even get to wear a cape.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren’t trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom. <span class="markup--strong markup--p-strong" style="font-weight: 700;">Isn’t it time we celebrate dads? </span>What can I say? Dads make the world go round.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This Sunday is Father’s Day — a day to surprise and spoil our favorite dads. With a little help from your Google Assistant, you can plan the perfect day, share some stories and more.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">So you want to make Dad a superhero at home: How cool would it be if Dad could turn the lights off in the kids’ room, play a favorite song or even set the house temperature with just his voice?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">First, he’s going to need a <a class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" data-href="http://fkrt.it/6Or2S2NNNN" href="http://fkrt.it/6Or2S2NNNN" rel="nofollow noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.54); background-color: transparent; background-image: linear-gradient(rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.68) 50%, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 50%); background-position: 0px 1.07em; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 2px 0.1em; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Google Home</a>, his trusty sidekick. Then he can set himself up with some smart light bulbs, a Nest learning thermostat and even a Google ChromeCast. One of Dad’s superpowers will be setting up all of this smart home stuff so it just <em class="markup--em markup--p-em" style="font-feature-settings: "liga", "salt";">works.</em> So Dad needs to know what to tell his Google Assistant to control things in the house with his voice, so it seems just like magic.<br /><br />
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<em class="markup--em markup--p-em" style="font-feature-settings: "liga", "salt";"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“Hey Google, turn the lights in the living room.”</span></em></div>
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<em class="markup--em markup--p-em" style="font-feature-settings: "liga", "salt";"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“Hey Google, start the coffee maker.”</span></em></div>
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<em class="markup--em markup--p-em" style="font-feature-settings: "liga", "salt";"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“Hey Google, set my alarm for 6:30 AM.”</span></em></div>
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<em class="markup--em markup--p-em" style="font-feature-settings: "liga", "salt";"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“Hey Google, set a reminder for back to school night on Thursday.”</span></em></div>
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<em class="markup--em markup--p-em" style="font-feature-settings: "liga", "salt";"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“Hey Google, set the temperature to 73 degrees at 9 PM.”</span></em></div>
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<em class="markup--em markup--p-em" style="font-feature-settings: "liga", "salt";"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Hey Google, find my phone.”<br /><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><em class="markup--em markup--p-em" style="font-feature-settings: "liga", "salt";">“Hey Google, play </em>Star Wars: The Last Jedi<em class="markup--em markup--p-em" style="font-feature-settings: "liga", "salt";"> on VUDU.”</em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><em class="markup--em markup--p-em" style="font-feature-settings: "liga", "salt";">“Hey Google, play dance party mix on </em><a class="markup--user markup--p-user" data-action-type="hover" data-action-value="60a317bb70e4" data-action="show-user-card" data-anchor-type="2" data-href="https://medium.com/@Spotify" data-user-id="60a317bb70e4" href="https://medium.com/@Spotify" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; color: #03a87c; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><em class="markup--em markup--p-em" style="font-feature-settings: "liga", "salt";">Spotify</em></a><em class="markup--em markup--p-em" style="font-feature-settings: "liga", "salt";">”</em></span></div>
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<em class="markup--em markup--p-em" style="font-feature-settings: "liga", "salt";"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“Hey Google, set living room lights to movie mode.”</span></em></div>
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<em class="markup--em markup--p-em" style="font-feature-settings: "liga", "salt";"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“Hey Google, add popcorn and hot dog buns to my shopping list.”</span></em></div>
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<em class="markup--em markup--p-em" style="font-feature-settings: "liga", "salt";"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“Hey Google, play the ‘This Week in Google’ podcast.”<br /><br />
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<em class="markup--em markup--p-em" style="font-feature-settings: "liga", "salt";"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.003em; text-indent: -0.4em;">“Hey Google, what time is the next Warriors game?”</span></span></em><em class="markup--em markup--p-em" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; text-indent: -0.4em;"><br />“Hey Google, tell me a Dad Joke.”</em><span style="color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.84); font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; text-indent: -0.4em;">One up your dad with your own dad jokes. Just ask your </span><span style="color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.84); font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; text-indent: -0.4em;">Assistant on phones to “tell me a joke.” You can even ask to “talk to Best Dad Jokes” to </span><span style="color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.84); font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; text-indent: -0.4em;">hear more!</span><span class="markup--em markup--p-em" style="color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.84); letter-spacing: -0.003em; text-indent: -0.4em;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /><i>“Hey Google, read the audiobook ‘The Outsider’ by Stephen King.”</i></span></span><em class="markup--em markup--p-em" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.84); letter-spacing: -0.003em; text-indent: -0.4em;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />“Hey Google, find instructions for hanging a picture frame.”</span></em><em class="markup--em markup--p-em" style="text-indent: -0.4em;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /><span style="color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.84); letter-spacing: -0.003em;">“Hey Google, what is a good recipe for grilled pizza?”</span></span></em><br />
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<span class="markup--em markup--p-em" style="text-indent: -0.4em;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /><span style="letter-spacing: -0.003em;">Plan the day using Google Assistant:</span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.048px;"><br /></span>Start a chat with your siblings in Google Allo and ask the Assistant for help planning the day, whether it’s finding “best golf courses nearby” or “current movies in the theater.”<br /><br />Bust out old photos of your dad (perhaps he went through a bell bottoms and perm phase?) by asking your Assistant to “show me photos of Dad.”<br /><span style="color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.84); text-indent: -6.4px;"><br />Get inspired by stories about dads from dads. Ask your Assistant for “stories about fatherhood” to hear dads tell their tales at</span><span style="color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.84); letter-spacing: -0.003em; text-indent: -6.4px;"> </span><a class="markup--anchor markup--li-anchor" data-href="https://storycops.org" href="https://storycops.org/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-image: linear-gradient(rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.68) 50%, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 50%); background-position: 0px 1.07em; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 2px 0.1em; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.84); letter-spacing: -0.003em; text-indent: -6.4px;" target="_blank">StoryCorps</a><span style="color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.84); letter-spacing: -0.003em; text-indent: -6.4px;">. “Hey Google, tell me a story about fatherhood” or “Hey, Google, tell me a Father’s Day story,” your</span><span style="color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.84); letter-spacing: -0.003em; text-indent: -6.4px;"> </span><a class="markup--anchor markup--li-anchor" data-href="http://fkrt.it/6Or2S2NNNN" href="http://fkrt.it/6Or2S2NNNN" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-image: linear-gradient(rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.68) 50%, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 50%); background-position: 0px 1.07em; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 2px 0.1em; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.84); letter-spacing: -0.003em; text-indent: -6.4px;" target="_blank">Google Home</a><span style="color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.84); letter-spacing: -0.003em; text-indent: -6.4px;"> </span><span style="color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.84); text-indent: -6.4px;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.003em;">device will treat you and your dad to some real-life tales about fellow fathers. For e.g. this one “Look at your children not just as an extension of yourself but as an unformulated possibility, and allow them to develop into what they can be” said Isaiah, father of four.</span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.048px;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.84); letter-spacing: -0.048px;"><br /></span>Most importantly, don’t forget! Tell your Assistant on your phone to “remind me to call dad on Sunday.”<br /><br /><span style="letter-spacing: -0.003em;">Do you scowl at the thought of purchasing another shaving kit, an assortment of gourmet nuts, or new clothes for dad this Father’s Day? If your dad’s not an easy one to shop for, and if you really want to help Dad feel like a superhero on Father’s Day, gift him a </span><a class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" data-href="http://fkrt.it/6Or2S2NNNN" href="http://fkrt.it/6Or2S2NNNN" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-image: linear-gradient(rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.68) 50%, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 50%); background-position: 0px 1.07em; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 2px 0.1em; letter-spacing: -0.003em;" target="_blank">Google Home</a><span style="letter-spacing: -0.003em;">, or </span><a class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" data-href="http://fkrt.it/6PNDz2NNNN" href="http://fkrt.it/6PNDz2NNNN" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-image: linear-gradient(rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.68) 50%, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 50%); background-position: 0px 1.07em; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 2px 0.1em; letter-spacing: -0.003em;" target="_blank">Google Home Mini</a><span style="letter-spacing: -0.003em;"> so he can make a super cool smart home for the family.</span><span style="color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.83921568627451);"><br /></span><br /><a class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" data-href="http://fkrt.it/6Or2S2NNNN" href="http://fkrt.it/6Or2S2NNNN" rel="nofollow noopener nofollow noopener" style="background-image: linear-gradient(rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.68) 50%, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 50%); background-position: 0px 1.07em; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 2px 0.1em; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.84); letter-spacing: -0.003em;" target="_blank">Google Home</a><span style="color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.84); letter-spacing: -0.003em;"> — 8,999</span></span></span></div>
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</section>Deepak Ravlanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09789437767809698790noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9761116.post-31683202089094109782018-04-26T09:29:00.000+05:302019-03-06T20:41:22.356+05:3080% of those polled said their own job will "probably" or "definitely"
still exist at that time<strong>80% of those polled said their own job will "probably" or "definitely" still exist at that time</strong><br /><br />Most Americans Think Robots Will Take All the Jobs, Just Not Theirs. Some two-thirds of the Americans believe that in fifty years, robots and computers will "probably" or "definitely" be performing most of the work currently carried out by humans.<br /><br />While we might believe automation is a threat to the workforce at large, individually, we seem mostly confident that we're irreplaceable. This natural strain of narcissism could create a blind spot, enabling workforce automation to take us by surprise.<br /><br />Younger people (ages 18-29) and people who work in the public sector (including educators and government employees) were both slightly more likely to believe their job is secure. Both groups were also slightly more skeptical of workforce automation in general.<br /><br />#workautomation #futureofwork #robotics #artificialintelligence #automation #jobs #bots<br /><a href="https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/wnxjp4/most-americans-think-robots-will-take-all-the-jobs-just-not-theirs" class="embedly-card" data-card-recommend="0" data-card-width="100%">https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/wnxjp4/most-americans-think-robots-will-take-all-the-jobs-just-not-theirs</a><script async src="//cdn.embedly.com/widgets/platform.js" charset="UTF-8"></script>Deepak Ravlanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09789437767809698790noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9761116.post-58862140590762874502018-04-06T09:31:00.000+05:302019-03-06T20:41:22.598+05:30By 2065, the productivity growth that automation could add to the
largest economies in the world is the equivalent...<strong>By 2065, the productivity growth that automation could add to the largest economies in the world is the equivalent of an additional 1.1 billion to 2.2 billion full-time workers</strong><br /><br />Today, about half the activities that people are paid to do in the global economy have the potential to be automated by adapting demonstrated technology. All economies, from Brazil and Germany to India and Saudi Arabia, stand to gain from the hefty productivity boosts that robotics and artificial intelligence will bring. The productivity growth enabled by automation can ensure continued prosperity in aging nations and could provide an additional boost to fast-growing ones.<br /><br />#workautomation #futureofwork #robotics #artificialintelligence #automation #productivity #bots #jobs #disruptivetechnology<br /><a href="https://hbr.org/2017/04/the-countries-most-and-least-likely-to-be-affected-by-automation" class="embedly-card" data-card-recommend="0" data-card-width="100%">https://hbr.org/2017/04/the-countries-most-and-least-likely-to-be-affected-by-automation</a><script async src="//cdn.embedly.com/widgets/platform.js" charset="UTF-8"></script>Deepak Ravlanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09789437767809698790noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9761116.post-88709958018086739322018-03-23T10:01:00.000+05:302019-03-06T20:41:22.817+05:30We'll experience a new age of productivity about a decade from now, and
it will come from all of today’s advances:...<strong>We'll experience a new age of productivity about a decade from now, and it will come from all of today’s advances: AI, robotics, large amounts of data that allow us to better understand our world and our humanity, creating a positive future.</strong><br /><br />Long-promised, long-awaited, and still missing, corporate productivity gains driven by all our technology will be in 2028.<br /><br />Weldon set a target date for achieving the long-promised, long-awaited, and still missing, corporate productivity gains driven by all our technology. 2028.<br /><br />“We’ve quantified when a Digital Age leap in productivity will occur that will resemble the leaps from the previous eras.<br /><br />“The good news is that we will experience a new age of productivity about a decade from now, and it will come from all of today’s advances: AI, robotics, large amounts of data that allow us to better understand our world and our humanity, creating a positive future.<br /><br />“The lack of significant improvement in economic productivity over past 30 years despite the rapid advances and growing investments in information and communications technologies, and the digitization and global interconnection of whole industries, has been a topic of much concern and debate among economists and policy makers.”<br /><br />In The Rise and Fall of American Growth, economist Robert Gordon “makes a provocative but persuasive argument that the significant jump in productivity during 1940’s was a one-time event. Gordon argues that the current advances in Information Technology pale in social impact compared to ‘Great Inventions’ of the first and second Industrial Revolutions.”<br /><br />What Gordon got right, according to Bell Labs, is that productivity skyrocketed not when companies leveraged new technologies in each of the previous revolutions, but when four basic infrastructures hit their tipping points in revolutionized changes:<br /><br />• Energy (gas, electric)<br /><br />• Health and Sanitation<br /><br />• Transportation<br /><br />• Communication (telegraph, telephone)<br /><br />Bell Labs postulates “that the combination of four physical networked infrastructure technologies — communication, energy, transportation, health and sanitation [plus a fifth, digital production] — are the foundational set of technologies that underpin” the next major leaps in productivity.<br /><br />We need leaders who completely reframe productivity, viewing it through a fourth revolution perspective.<br /><br />That shift radically alters our relationship with our workforce. We’ve got to shift the unending burden to produce morebetterfaster on human beings, and place it where it belongs — within our integrated infrastructures.<br /><br /><strong>We’ve got to free humans to do more of what they do best. Think. Create. Innovate. Disrupt. Care. Be their best.</strong><br /><br />#workautomation #futureofwork #artificialintelligence #automation #productivity #jobs #processtransformation<br /><a href="https://wtfeconomy.com/will-todays-digital-transformations-finally-create-a-new-era-of-productivity-810adef7fab6" class="embedly-card" data-card-recommend="0" data-card-width="100%">https://wtfeconomy.com/will-todays-digital-transformations-finally-create-a-new-era-of-productivity-810adef7fab6</a><script async src="//cdn.embedly.com/widgets/platform.js" charset="UTF-8"></script>Deepak Ravlanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09789437767809698790noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9761116.post-70374235871325909502018-03-08T09:15:00.000+05:302019-03-06T20:41:23.006+05:30Robots could soon become advanced enough to make their own decisions<strong>Robots could soon become advanced enough to make their own decisions</strong><br /><br />Robots. They're here, they're getting smart, and some, at least, are being outfitted to kill. Should we meatbags be worried?<br /><br />In Inhuman Kind, Motherboard gains exclusive access to a small fleet of US Army bomb disposal robots—the same platforms the military has weaponized—and to a pair of DARPA's six-foot-tall bipedal humanoid robots. We also meet Nobel Peace Prize winner Jody Williams, renowned physicist Max Tegmark, and others who grapple with the specter of artificial intelligence, killer robots, and a technological precedent forged in the atomic age. It's a story about the evolving relationship between humans and robots, and what AI in machines bodes for the future of war and the human race.<br /><br />There are basically two things which grow in parallel as society evolves right, there is the power of our technology and then there's the wisdom of us humans for how to manage the technology. <strong>If technology grows faster than the wisdom it's kind of like going into kindergarten and giving them a bunch of hand grenades to play with.</strong> We have no clue what would happen if we were to ever succeed in making machines that are much smarter than us.<br /><br />#workautomation #futureofwork #robotics #artificialintelligence #automation #robotprocessautomation #disruptivetechnology<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qBjFZV19p0" class="embedly-card" data-card-recommend="0" data-card-width="100%">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qBjFZV19p0</a><script async src="//cdn.embedly.com/widgets/platform.js" charset="UTF-8"></script>Deepak Ravlanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09789437767809698790noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9761116.post-32091720316104346952018-02-23T09:25:00.000+05:302019-03-06T20:41:23.221+05:30How automating feedback with AI powered conversations can aid decision
making in real-time<strong>How automating feedback with AI powered conversations can aid decision making in real-time</strong><br /><br />All systems need feedback to learn, improve and course correct. The autopilot functionality in driverless cars is a perfect example. Sensors measure the desired speed and position of the vehicle — among other indicators — and send that data to control systems which adjust accordingly.<br /><br />Gathering rich, organic feedback on a continuous basis is necessary for managers and regulators to make informed decisions. Robust feedback means honoring people’s authentic voices, rather than shoehorning them into a multiple choice format. It means taking the time to find out how many others share what may be a surprising opinion (to management) or understanding of a situation. It means preserving minority opinions. It means listening well.<br /><br />But getting rich feedback from a population usually starts with in-depth interviews of a representative sample. Surveys are then created based on the interviews to see which ideas are representative. The process is manual, time consuming and requires specialized knowledge — in a word, expensive.<br /><br />Applying artificial intelligence to the problem of gathering insights from large populations alleviates much of the burden. AI assisted feedback gathering means no routine effort or process on the part of the organization. It realizes, in yet another domain, Licklider’s vision of human computer symbiosis:<br /><br />Licklider[’s] … vision was to enable man and machine to cooperate in making decisions, controlling complex situations without the inflexible dependence on predetermined programs. … Licklider foresaw computers doing all the routinizable work that was required to prepare the way for insights and decision making. — Shyam Sankar, TEDGlobal 2012<br />It means genuine, rich feedback can appear in the inboxes of those who need it, from those who are best positioned to give it, every day or every week — as often as makes sense. It also means that feedback can be scripted or scheduled to run in a certain way at a certain time, in extremely flexible ways.<br /><br />Most importantly, though, it means organizations have the potential to learn and improve on ideas more quickly.<br /><br />Happy automating!<br /><br />#workautomation #artificialintelligence #futureofwork #continuousfeedback #automation #agileorganization #bots #processtransformation<br /><a href="https://wtfeconomy.com/creating-a-culture-of-continuous-feedback-1b97523ad11e" class="embedly-card" data-card-recommend="0" data-card-width="100%">https://wtfeconomy.com/creating-a-culture-of-continuous-feedback-1b97523ad11e</a><script async src="//cdn.embedly.com/widgets/platform.js" charset="UTF-8"></script>Deepak Ravlanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09789437767809698790noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9761116.post-62508732320301180472018-02-16T09:15:00.000+05:302019-03-06T20:41:23.416+05:30Artificial intelligence will have a major impact on employment.<strong>Artificial intelligence will have a major impact on employment.</strong><br /><br />“Strong AI,” which has as its goal automating all the tasks, cognitive as well as physical, that humans can perform. Strong AI differs from “Weak AI,” which has as its goal simply providing help to humans.<br /><br />Opinions about the societal impact of this rapidly accelerating technological revolution span the spectrum from anticipated utopias to the fear of existential threats to humanity.<br /><br />Indeed AI and automation are already having profound effects on employment, as former assembly line workers, postal employees, and bank tellers will confirm. Also, soon to be affected are even some mid-level professionals such as attorneys, radiologists, stockbrokers, and newspaper writers. I think that the result of all of this automation will be continuing structural unemployment, especially among unskilled and not-sufficiently educated people.<br /><br />The question is, how will all these abundant goods and services be distributed? Just to those few who are sufficiently well off and who still earn enough from their non-automated jobs to pay for them? What social problems will that cause? We will need significant changes in our economic system to ensure that distribution is fair and socially responsible (whatever all that turns out to mean). Several suggestions come to mind, such as a negative income tax, more entitlements, shorter workweeks, and stock ownership by all citizens, so that they will own the machines producing the wealth and thus collect the dividends.<br /><br />AI is a disruptive technology, and like all disruptions, it will be both a boon and a bane. Many of its consequences will ultimately be up to us.<br /><br />#workautomation #futureofwork #artificialintelligence #automation #productivity #jobs #disruptivetechnology<br /><a href="https://psmag.com/economics/the-future-of-work-automations-effect-on-jobsthis-time-is-different" class="embedly-card" data-card-recommend="0" data-card-width="100%">https://psmag.com/economics/the-future-of-work-automations-effect-on-jobsthis-time-is-different</a><script async src="//cdn.embedly.com/widgets/platform.js" charset="UTF-8"></script>Deepak Ravlanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09789437767809698790noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9761116.post-2370353177955435132018-02-07T09:25:00.000+05:302019-03-06T20:41:23.615+05:30Lifetime learning, continued training and retraining throughout their
lives are key to staying ahead of increasingly...<strong>Lifetime learning, continued training and retraining throughout their lives are key to staying ahead of increasingly skilled machines</strong><br /><br />Robots are getting very good at a whole bunch of jobs and tasks, but there are still many categories in which humans perform better.<br /><br />And, perhaps more importantly, robots and other forms of automation can aid in the creation of new and better jobs for humans. As a result, while we do expect that some jobs will disappear, other jobs will be created and some existing jobs will become more valuable. Workers, for their part, have to be strategic and aim for the jobs least likely to be overtaken by robots or other machines. They have to commit to a lifetime of practicing and updating their skills.<br /><br />There are three areas where humans have a distinct advantage over machines. These are areas that are key to job creation. Where humans beat machines.<br /><br /><strong>Creative endeavours</strong>: These include creative writing, entrepreneurship, and scientific discovery. These can be highly paid and rewarding jobs. There is no better time to be an entrepreneur with an insight than today, because you can use technology to leverage your invention.<br /><br /><strong>Social interactions</strong>: Robots do not have the kinds of emotional intelligence that humans have. Motivated people who are sensitive to the needs of others make great managers, leaders, salespeople, negotiators, caretakers, nurses, and teachers. Consider, for example, the idea of a robot giving a half-time pep talk to a high school football team. That would not be inspiring. Recent research makes clear that social skills are increasingly in demand.<br /><br /><strong>Physical dexterity and mobility</strong>: If you have ever seen a robot try to pick up a pencil you see how clumsy and slow they are, compared to a human child. Humans have millennia of experience hiking mountains, swimming lakes, and dancing—practice that gives them extraordinary agility and physical dexterity.<br /><br />The answer to the new and growing workforce of robots is not to slow the pace of technological progress, but to speed up our institutions so that entrepreneurs, managers and workers alike can thrive.<br /><br />#workautomation #futureofwork #robotics #automation #jobs #disruptivetechnology<br /><a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-34175290" class="embedly-card" data-card-recommend="0" data-card-width="100%">http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-34175290</a><script async src="//cdn.embedly.com/widgets/platform.js" charset="UTF-8"></script>Deepak Ravlanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09789437767809698790noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9761116.post-2295749143444543492018-01-24T09:25:00.000+05:302019-03-06T20:41:23.806+05:3035% of UK jobs are at risk of being automated over the next two decades<strong>35% of UK jobs are at risk of being automated over the next two decades</strong><br /><br />According to Oxford University, in the years ahead, millions of jobs in sectors such as accounting and auditing will be replaced with machines that can so the same tasks much more cheaply and effectively than human workers - without requiring salaries, holidays or sick pay - while administrators, paralegals and bank clerks will also be hit hard.<br /><br />We need to help people <strong>develop skills that machines are still relatively bad at, such as creativity, empathy and problem-solving</strong>.<br /><br />When it comes to the real-life race against the machine, we have no time to lose. Either we can rise to the challenge of automation, and radically overhaul our education, training and skills system, or wage a losing battle trying to compete.<br /><br />#workautomation #futureofwork #robotics #automation #jobs #disruptivetechnology #fourthindustrialrevolution<br /><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/11858391/The-new-white-collar-fear-will-robots-take-your-job.html" class="embedly-card" data-card-recommend="0" data-card-width="100%">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/11858391/The-new-white-collar-fear-will-robots-take-your-job.html</a><script async src="//cdn.embedly.com/widgets/platform.js" charset="UTF-8"></script>Deepak Ravlanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09789437767809698790noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9761116.post-89921120741524448952018-01-18T09:20:00.000+05:302019-03-06T20:41:24.009+05:30Robots could soon become advanced enough to make their own decisions<strong>Robots could soon become advanced enough to make their own decisions</strong><br /><br />Robots will be able to make some decisions on their own—like where to bring a load of car parts—whether or not they will result in benefits for workers will be up to the humans deciding how they'll be used.<br /><br />While automation and robotics certainly have the potential to save workers from lives of toil and misery—if they are indeed miserable—they also hold the possibility to deepen current inequalities, depending on whose hands they're in.<br /><br />In most cases, repositioning labour doesn't mean that everyone gets to keep their jobs. Ultimately when you redeploy people from one job to another, there's a cascading effect that does eliminate jobs unless they're bringing in more work.<br /><br />#workautomation #futureofwork #robotics #artificialintelligence #automation #jobs #robotprocessautomation #disruptivetechnology<br /><a href="https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/3dk4m8/robot-workers-will-only-be-as-ethical-as-their-masters" class="embedly-card" data-card-recommend="0" data-card-width="100%">https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/3dk4m8/robot-workers-will-only-be-as-ethical-as-their-masters</a><script async src="//cdn.embedly.com/widgets/platform.js" charset="UTF-8"></script>Deepak Ravlanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09789437767809698790noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9761116.post-85755808269190404232018-01-10T09:25:00.000+05:302019-03-06T20:41:24.221+05:30Safe jobs in 21st century are among three bottlenecks to automation:
creativity, social intelligence, and the...<strong>Safe jobs in 21st century are among three bottlenecks to automation: creativity, social intelligence, and the ability to interact with complex objects and environments</strong><br /><br />The digital age is set to cause more upheaval than previous technological revolutions because change is happening faster than ever before and is fundamentally altering the way we live and work. Technology is now enabling not just the automation of repetitive but also cognitive tasks involving subtle and non-routine judgment. Through robotics, big data, the digitisation of industries and the Internet of Things the nature of occupations and whole industries is changing and also the dynamics of economic growth.<br /><br />We should equip workers to engage with developing technologies, so they're able to benefit from them, and focus on those bottlenecks still faced by automation. Giving people those skills could help them find jobs that aren't readily replaceable by technology, but also help them to develop new technologies and push innovation further.<br /><br />#workautomation #futureofwork #robotics #automation #jobs #disruptivetechnology #universalbasicincome<br /><a href="https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/vvbx88/how-to-keep-a-piece-of-the-pie-after-the-robots-take-our-jobs" class="embedly-card" data-card-recommend="0" data-card-width="100%">https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/vvbx88/how-to-keep-a-piece-of-the-pie-after-the-robots-take-our-jobs</a><script async src="//cdn.embedly.com/widgets/platform.js" charset="UTF-8"></script>Deepak Ravlanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09789437767809698790noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9761116.post-51707362827588206922017-12-20T09:30:00.000+05:302019-03-06T20:41:24.413+05:30Robots may take our jobs, but they bring us freedom as well<strong>Robots may take our jobs, but they bring us freedom as well</strong><br /><br />The robots and software applications we are building to take away jobs are simply not something we can or should attempt to compete against. We won't win.<br /><br />However, as human beings, we can evolve and be happier and more fulfilled than we've ever been before. The key is a shift in our thinking—and in the value we place in the kind of work we want to do and how we enjoy free time.<br /><br />In the future—with less work and responsibility due to robots taking our jobs and leaving us only to collect our UBI—we might find there is a lot more to life than buying the latest trinkets from Walmart, or zoning out late at night in front of a television, or worrying about how poorly our bosses treat us at work. Let the robots come. They bring us freedom. With that freedom, we can become the best human beings we are capable of—a people full of passion, education, and a newly discovered drive of what it means to be alive.<br /><br />#workautomation #futureofwork #robotics #automation #productivity #jobs #disruptivetechnology #universalbasicincome<br /><a href="https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/539j45/the-new-american-dream-let-the-robots-take-our-jobs" class="embedly-card" data-card-recommend="0" data-card-width="100%">https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/539j45/the-new-american-dream-let-the-robots-take-our-jobs</a><script async src="//cdn.embedly.com/widgets/platform.js" charset="UTF-8"></script>Deepak Ravlanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09789437767809698790noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9761116.post-83881840775443605052017-12-12T09:30:00.000+05:302019-03-06T20:41:24.602+05:30Places that have specialised in creative work are most likely to
prosper in the 21st century<strong>Places that have specialised in creative work are most likely to prosper in the 21st century</strong><br /><br />The chance of finding yourself replaced by a robot varies depending on where you work, the field you work in, and how much you earn (factors that are obviously linked)<br /><br />Across the whole UK, jobs paying less than £30,000 ($48,000) are nearly five times more likely to be lost to automation than jobs paying over £100,000 ($159,000). The finer points of how automation will affect the workplace: jobs in administrative support, transportation, sales and services, construction, and manufacturing as among the most high-risk from technology.<br /><br />Meanwhile, jobs in sectors like financial services, senior management, engineering, law, science, education, and the arts and media are at the least risk of being roboticized. That broadly echoes and reflects where automated systems are at now: great at repetitive drudgery, not so much at creative thought and people skills.<br /><br />Cities that maintain their ability to shift workers into new employment opportunities resulting from technological change will prove the most resilient.<br /><br />#workautomation #futureofwork #robotics #artificialintelligence #automation #jobs #disruptivetechnology<br /><a href="https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/jp5bkx/robots-are-coming-for-your-job-but-only-if-youre-poor" class="embedly-card" data-card-recommend="0" data-card-width="100%">https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/jp5bkx/robots-are-coming-for-your-job-but-only-if-youre-poor</a><script async src="//cdn.embedly.com/widgets/platform.js" charset="UTF-8"></script>Deepak Ravlanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09789437767809698790noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9761116.post-86213355716320798272017-12-07T09:30:00.000+05:302019-03-06T20:41:24.795+05:30Quantum robots are being designed to become the worker of tomorrow<strong>Quantum robots are being designed to become the worker of tomorrow</strong><br /><br />If robots are ever going to start learning, thinking, and creating on their own, they're going to have to go quantum.<br />Robots are still mostly designed to complete specific tasks and aren't learning from their past mistakes. But the coming quantum computing revolution will change all of that, in a decade, and will lead to real artificial intelligence and smart, creative robots.<br /><br />Quantum computers can be used to allow robots to remember situations they've encountered before in "classical environment"—that is, the real world, where things are constantly changing. The robots will then be able to react and learn at a quadratic rate (that is, very fast, perhaps in real time) and be able to recall memories at that same speed.<br /><br />#workautomation #futureofwork #robotics #artificialintelligence #automation #jobs #machinelearning #bots #quantumcomputing<br /><a href="https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/3dkpk8/quantum-robots-will-do-your-job-better-than-you-can" class="embedly-card" data-card-recommend="0" data-card-width="100%">https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/3dkpk8/quantum-robots-will-do-your-job-better-than-you-can</a><script async src="//cdn.embedly.com/widgets/platform.js" charset="UTF-8"></script>Deepak Ravlanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09789437767809698790noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9761116.post-9328449301579536702017-12-04T09:25:00.000+05:302019-03-06T20:41:22.029+05:30Robots and the corporations have been taking our jobs for years, and
they're going to take a lot more soon<strong>Robots and the corporations have been taking our jobs for years, and they're going to take a lot more soon</strong><br /><br />Clearly, many of robotics and automation technologies are ways off from mass adoption. But they're there, and if they become cost effective—for giant retailers or fast food chains or the inevitable robo-lawn care multinational—another slice of the economy will fall asunder to automation.<br /><br />Dislodging that major swath of the workforce will be much more problematic—we're going to need to improve our safety net and rejigger income distribution to account for the coming disruption, lest our menial labor bots service only the rich and/or eventually get smashed to bits in the inevitable Luddite 2.0 revolution. The benefits of robots taking our crappy summer jobs and thankless permanent ones will only be manifest if we take the proper steps to prepare for them politically and socially.<br /><br />#workautomation #futureofwork #robotics #automation #robotprocessautomation #jobs #universalbasicincome<br /><a href="https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/9akw8p/robots-are-going-to-take-your-crappy-summer-job-too" class="embedly-card" data-card-recommend="0" data-card-width="100%">https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/9akw8p/robots-are-going-to-take-your-crappy-summer-job-too</a><script async src="//cdn.embedly.com/widgets/platform.js" charset="UTF-8"></script>Deepak Ravlanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09789437767809698790noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9761116.post-65224299657244103812017-11-30T09:20:00.000+05:302019-03-06T20:41:24.988+05:30We are in for a great disruption and those most disrupted will be the
middle and working classes<strong>We are in for a great disruption and those most disrupted will be the middle and working classes</strong><br /><br />Jobs have been created — but many, in the service sector, are both insecure or what the academic-activist David Graeber calls “bullshit jobs” — jobs which give neither pleasure to their holders nor benefit to society. More, the service jobs are often wearying, and don’t provide a decent living — especially for those who live in expensive cities like New York, London or Paris. Gone is the era of the lifetime career, let alone the lifelong job and the economic security that came with it, having been replaced by a new economy intent on recasting full-time employees into contractors, vendors, and temporary workers.<br /><br />Work — making sure it’s there, making it meaningful, giving it the dignity of being part-constructed by the worker — will be the largest domestic issue in our economies.<br /><br />#workautomation #futureofwork #jobs #automation #disruptivetechnology<br /><a href="http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2015/09/11/if-jobs-are-replaced-by-technology-then-what-replaces-jobs/" class="embedly-card" data-card-recommend="0" data-card-width="100%">http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2015/09/11/if-jobs-are-replaced-by-technology-then-what-replaces-jobs/</a><script async src="//cdn.embedly.com/widgets/platform.js" charset="UTF-8"></script>Deepak Ravlanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09789437767809698790noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9761116.post-39575655620069175302017-11-23T09:20:00.000+05:302019-03-06T20:41:25.182+05:30702 occupations would soon be computerized out of existence<strong>702 occupations would soon be computerized out of existence</strong><br /><br />Advances in data mining, machine vision, artificial intelligence and other technologies could, put 47 percent of American jobs at high risk of being automated in the years ahead. Loan officers, tax preparers, cashiers, locomotive engineers, paralegals, roofers, taxi drivers and even animal breeders are all in danger of going the way of the switchboard operator.<br /><br />Since the end of the Great Recession, job creation has not kept up with population growth. Corporate profits have doubled since 2000, yet median household income dropped from $55,986 to $51,017. Somehow businesses are making more profit with fewer workers.<br /><br />Business researchers at MIT, call this divergence the “great decoupling.” In their view, it is a historic shift.<br /><br />The conventional economic wisdom has long been that as long as productivity is increasing, all is well. Technological innovations foster higher productivity, which leads to higher incomes and greater well-being for all. And for most of the 20th century productivity and incomes did rise in parallel. But in recent decades the two began to diverge. Productivity kept increasing while incomes—which is to say, the welfare of individual workers—stagnated or dropped.<br /><br />Researchers argue that technological advances are destroying jobs, particularly low-skill jobs, faster than they are creating them. They cite research showing that so-called routine jobs (bank teller, machine operator, dressmaker) began to fade in the 1980s, when computers first made their presence known, but that the rate has accelerated: between 2001 and 2011, 11 percent of routine jobs disappeared.<br /><br />#workautomation #futureofwork #artificialintelligence #machinevision #automation #productivity #jobs<br /><a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/will-automation-take-our-jobs/" class="embedly-card" data-card-recommend="0" data-card-width="100%">https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/will-automation-take-our-jobs/</a><script async src="//cdn.embedly.com/widgets/platform.js" charset="UTF-8"></script>Deepak Ravlanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09789437767809698790noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9761116.post-12175812515992715622017-11-21T13:44:00.000+05:302019-03-06T20:41:25.372+05:30Robots won't just be taking our jobs; they'll be forcing us to confront
a major existential dilemma: if we didn't...<strong>Robots won't just be taking our jobs; they'll be forcing us to confront a major existential dilemma: if we didn't have to work anymore, what would we do?</strong><br /><br />Optimists say that more robots will lead to greater productivity and economic growth, while pessimists complain that huge swaths of the labor force will see their employment options automated out of existence. What if both are right?<br /><br />As robots start doing more and more of the work humans used to do, and doing it so much more efficiently than we ever did, what if the need for jobs disappears altogether? What if the robots end up producing more than enough of everything that everyone needs?<br /><br />A future that looks more like Star Trek than Blade Runner, a lot of people could end up with a lot more time on their hands. The answer is both a quantitative and qualitative exercise in defining what makes human intelligence distinct from the artificial kind, a definition that seems to keep getting narrower.<br /><br />Humans will continue to be useful workers, the argument goes, because of things like empathy, creativity, judgment, and critical thinking. Consider the all-too-common experience of calling customer service reps whose employers force them to follow a script—a kind of pseudo-automation. When made to follow a decision tree the way a computer would, all four of those qualities are sucked out of the interaction—no opportunity to exercise creativity, empathy, judgment, or critical thinking—and the service provided tends to stink.<br /><br />"Detecting complaints is an AI problem. Sending the complaints to the correct customer service entity is an AI problem". But customer service itself is a human problem. <strong>Those areas in which human compassion is important will be less changed than those where compassion is less or not important.</strong><br /><br /><strong>No Job Required</strong><br /><br />Increased productivity correlates with economic growth and job growth, since human labor has historically driven production. A robot workforce, however, can drive productivity and growth on its own, eliminating jobs in the process. That might mean the whole paradigm of exchanging labor for pay starts to break down.<br /><br />The idea that robots could make employment itself optional may sound fantastic. No more work! But the end result could be more, not less angst. We'd still have to find our place among the robots, except this time without work as a guidepost for defining a sense of purpose. <strong>By eliminating the need for people to work, robots would free us up to focus on what really makes us human.</strong> The scariest possibility of all is that only then do we figure out what really makes us human is work.<br /><br />#workautomation #futureofwork #robotics #artificialintelligence #automation #productivity #bots #jobs<br /><a href="https://www.wired.com/2014/08/when-robots-take-all-the-work-whatll-be-left-for-us-to-do/" class="embedly-card" data-card-recommend="0" data-card-width="100%">https://www.wired.com/2014/08/when-robots-take-all-the-work-whatll-be-left-for-us-to-do/</a><script async src="//cdn.embedly.com/widgets/platform.js" charset="UTF-8"></script>Deepak Ravlanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09789437767809698790noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9761116.post-87950257842089307042017-11-20T13:15:00.000+05:302019-03-06T20:41:25.568+05:30It becomes tempting to reserve the best of ourselves for the short-term
gains of work and “automate” the long game...<strong>It becomes tempting to reserve the best of ourselves for the short-term gains of work and “automate” the long game of life.</strong><br /><br />Would you pay someone in the Philippines to answer your email for you — even your personal messages? Or hire strangers on the internet to plan your spouse’s big birthday party? Or throw meat, vegetables, and butter into a blender and call it dinner?<br /><br />These are just some of the actual “life-automating” techniques of busy entrepreneurs today.<br /><br />Maneesh Sethi, best known as the easily-distracted man who paid a woman to slap him in the face every time he checked Facebook. He spoke at South by Southwest in Texas about how he’s now hired a man in Manila (Caleb) to check his email for him. Caleb, who Sethi found through Staff.com, goes through Sethi’s email — both work and personal — every morning and flags important messages for follow-up, as well as categorizing and drafting responses for the rest. By the time Sethi wakes up, his email has already been sorted; and by the end of the day, every message has been answered. And Sethi never had to write a single response himself.<br /><br />Sethi was on a panel called “Life Automation for Entrepreneurs” that also included podcaster Veronica Belmont, a Getting Things Done devotee. She uses productivity apps (like TripIt and Things) and virtual assistants (such as Fancy Hands) to stay organized and efficient. For instance, she hired temporary assistants on Fancy Hands to plan her husband’s recent birthday party. These “virtual assistants” brainstormed themes; found a venue; planned the party; even devised thoughtful extras she said she’d never have come up with. “I thought I’d never need to outsource these kinds of actions,” she explained, “But frankly, none of us have the time we need.”<br /><br />The result of this extreme devotion to work is that we overwhelm ourselves, to the point where even the most trivial decisions become a source of stress. “Even small decisions like replying to an email or returning a phone call, each of those stresses you out a little bit and wears you down,” argued Sethi. Asprey agreed: “There’s a stress for 40 different apps, choosing which one to use.” To a degree, they’re correct. Decisions do cause stress, and willpower does decline if you overtax it (this is why habits are so powerful — because they move important tasks out of the realm of conscious effort).<br /><br />So the next time your instincts are telling you to press on, to climb higher, to put one more piece of your life on autopilot, consider: even Sisyphus got to walk downhill half the time.<br /><br />#workautomation #futureofwork #productivity #automation #bots #jobs #GTD<br /><a href="https://hbr.org/2014/03/should-you-automate-your-life-so-that-you-can-work-harder" class="embedly-card" data-card-recommend="0" data-card-width="100%">https://hbr.org/2014/03/should-you-automate-your-life-so-that-you-can-work-harder</a><script async src="//cdn.embedly.com/widgets/platform.js" charset="UTF-8"></script>Deepak Ravlanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09789437767809698790noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9761116.post-16232480980106461662017-11-19T15:23:00.000+05:302019-03-06T20:41:25.761+05:30An Oxford Study shows that 47% of US jobs are at risk of being
displaced by automation and computerization<strong>An Oxford Study shows that 47% of US jobs are at risk of being displaced by automation and computerization</strong><br /> <br />The study from 2013 examined over 700 occupation types to reveal which may be vulnerable in the coming decades and finds that the precarious jobs are not limited to those based on computation and routine tasks. Google's self-driving car, for example, proves that new technology can perform both routine and non-routine tasks, as well as manual and cognitive work, potentially rendering humans redundant to driving and navigation.<br /> <br />As automation and computerization develop, new technologies will disrupt the lives of many workers. But these developments will also create large surpluses of wealth through gains in efficiency. We can choose where and how that wealth is directed. As jobs are displaced, we can pursue policy platforms that strengthen the social safety net and ensure that workers who have been pushed out of the labor force are able to meet their basic needs. If we want to live in a society that defines many people as redundant parts of a surplus population, we should sit back and hope for the best. But if we value the life and dignity of each and every individual, then we need to get involved in ensuring that the future we live in will be a future where the benefits of changes in technology are justly distributed for all.<br /> <br />We are at a critical juncture in the evolution of human society. We can continue to live in a world where many of us are nothing more than cogs in a machine, or we can choose to fashion a society that values the potential and power and beauty of every individual.<br /> <br />#workautomation #futureofwork #robotics #artificialintelligence #automation #productivity #bots #jobs #universalbasicincome<br /><a href="https://www.thoughtworks.com/insights/blog/what-future-work" class="embedly-card" data-card-recommend="0" data-card-width="100%">https://www.thoughtworks.com/insights/blog/what-future-work</a><script async src="//cdn.embedly.com/widgets/platform.js" charset="UTF-8"></script>Deepak Ravlanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09789437767809698790noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9761116.post-71581249779957047132017-11-18T19:20:00.000+05:302019-03-06T20:41:25.956+05:30In the new world, Full-Time Employees(FTEs) will become APIs<strong>In the new world, Full-Time Employees(FTEs) will become APIs</strong><br />Developers are rapidly finding ways to put future developers out of jobs.<br /><br />Much has been made about how the dropping cost of website infrastructure has spurred a boom in startup formation, with Amazon Web Services held up as the prime example. The capital cost of servers has been eliminated, but even more important is the plummeting human cost.<br /><br /><strong>How the startup landscape is changing.</strong><br />The knowledge of the world’s leading experts is available as an API for a fraction of their former salaries. <br /><br />A decade ago, a VP of engineering at a startup might have evaluated the resumes of five solid front-end engineers. Five years ago that VP would have looked at GitHub profiles. Today, they are just as likely to evaluate a front-end framework like Ionic, Meteor or Aurelia and build it themselves.<br /><br />It’s not just front-end options. We’ve seen a massive proliferation in frameworks, libraries and other <strong>tools that allow a single talented engineer to do the work of a team.</strong><br /><br />Companies and products like Heroku, Celery, RabbitMQ, Mandrill, Fastly, Chartio, Chargebee, Shipwire, Docker, Codeship, Rainforest QA, Replicated and Chartbeat have changed the nature of tech development. These are just a small subset of services that replace the work of individuals or entire teams.<br /><br />In the absence of these services, startups would have to hire one or more employees to fill the role. Instead of bringing on new employees, they can empower a small team of engineers and designers to multiply their efforts.<br /><br /><strong>But I Can’t Build a Startup This Way…Or Can I?</strong><br /><br />These tools have made it possible to make almost anything, fairly easily. Sure, building something as complex as Uber is going to be a challenge no matter what, but it’s unprecedented how far these tools can stretch the creator’s power.<br /><br />A decade ago, building “real-time” services would have necessitated hiring one or more back-end specialists. Today, you can insert a few lines of code from Google’s Firebase and get the same effect. Front-end designers leverage JQuery in much the same way. Tasks that would have made for full-time job descriptions just a few years ago are now bullet points on a job posting.<br /><br />Imagine the power of tools such as Bubble. While their tagline, “build your startup by pointing and clicking,” might not be applicable to everyone today, but within 10 years we will see at least one unicorn built without writing a single line of code.<br /><br />APIs are truly democratizing startup creation. Not only will you practically need no money to get started, you won’t need any tech skills either. All you will need is a keen understanding of the user and how to take your product to market. Of course, this has major implications in terms of pace of product development, and the consequent noise in the market, but net-net it’s great for consumers. Anyone with a great idea anywhere in the world can build a billion-dollar tech company. That’s exciting!<br /><br />#workautomation #futureofwork #artificialintelligence #automation #productivity #jobs <br /><a href="http://techcrunch.com/2015/09/06/apis-are-the-new-ftes" class="embedly-card" data-card-recommend="0" data-card-width="100%">http://techcrunch.com/2015/09/06/apis-are-the-new-ftes</a><script async src="//cdn.embedly.com/widgets/platform.js" charset="UTF-8"></script>Deepak Ravlanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09789437767809698790noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9761116.post-32081935959804734752017-11-17T14:41:00.000+05:302019-03-06T20:41:26.186+05:30The new coming wave of automation is blind to the color of your collar<strong>The new coming wave of automation is blind to the color of your collar</strong><br /><br />Kaplan said that in the next decade or two, driverless cars could put many of the more than three million licensed professional drivers around the country out of work. While automation long ago revolutionized the assembly line, advances in big data computing power could soon downsize the traditional white collar workforce as well.<br /><br />"Even what you think of as advanced professions that require a great deal of specialization and expertise, the vast majority of the work is routine, and it's those routine tasks which can be now taken over by computers, so that what used to take the work of 20 lawyers may be done by five lawyers, or 20 doctors may be done by five doctors," Kaplan said.<br /><br />Maybe even journalists. Now computers are creeping into the reporting field. At The Associated Press, approximately 4,000 corporate earning stories are being written by computers.<br /><br />The AP uses a program called Wordsmith, created by Automated Insights. "We can generate millions of stories in a matter of minutes or hours," Automated Insights CEO Robbie Allen said. But Allen downplays the doomsday scenario.<br /><br />"I believe that our future is going to be much more of a humans and software working together, and to our knowledge nobody's ever lost a job due to an implementation of Wordsmith," Allen said. "In fact, most of the time we're implementing things that previously didn't exist before."<br /><br />"We haven't eliminated any jobs, and what it's really done for us is it's allowed us to give reporters and editors time to do more meaningful work," said Patterson.<br /><br />If computers continue to infringe on humans' territory, what would a mostly jobless population look like?<br /><br />#workautomation #futureofwork #artificialintelligence #automation #productivity #bots<br /><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/will-a-i-overtake-humans-in-the-workplace/" class="embedly-card" data-card-recommend="0" data-card-width="100%">https://www.cbsnews.com/news/will-a-i-overtake-humans-in-the-workplace/</a><script async src="//cdn.embedly.com/widgets/platform.js" charset="UTF-8"></script>Deepak Ravlanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09789437767809698790noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9761116.post-44799771928729473992017-11-09T21:18:00.000+05:302019-03-06T20:41:26.377+05:30Our endless inventiveness and bottomless desires means that we never
get enough, never get enough.<strong>Our endless inventiveness and bottomless desires means that we never get enough, never get enough. There's always new work to do.</strong><br /><br />If you think about it, many of the great inventions of the last 200 years were designed to replace human labor. Tractors were developed to substitute mechanical power for human physical toil. Assembly lines were engineered to replace inconsistent human handiwork with machine perfection. Computers were programmed to swap out error-prone, inconsistent human calculation with digital perfection. These inventions have worked. We no longer dig ditches by hand, pound tools out of wrought iron or do bookkeeping using actual books.<br /><br />What this means for the future of work and the challenges that automation does and does not pose for our society.<br /><br />Despite a century of creating machines to do our work for us, the proportion of adults in the US with a job has consistently gone up for the past 125 years. Why hasn't human labor become redundant and our skills obsolete? In this talk about the future of work, economist David Autor addresses the question of why there are still so many jobs and comes up with a surprising, hopeful answer.<br /><br />There are actually two fundamental economic principles at stake. One has to do with human genius and creativity. The other has to do with human insatiability. <br /><br />First of these the O-ring principle, and it determines the type of work that we do. <br />Most of the work that we do requires a multiplicity of skills, and brains and brawn, technical expertise and intuitive mastery, perspiration and inspiration in the words of Thomas Edison. In general, automating some subset of those tasks doesn't make the other ones unnecessary. In fact, it makes them more important. It increases their economic value. In much of the work that we do, we are the O-rings.<br /><br />The second principle is the never-get-enough principle, and it determines how many jobs there actually are.<br />You may be thinking, OK, O-ring, got it, that says the jobs that people do will be important. They can't be done by machines, but they still need to be done. But that doesn't tell me how many jobs there will need to be. If you think about it, isn't it kind of self-evident that once we get sufficiently productive at something, we've basically worked our way out of a job? In 1900, 40 percent of all US employment was on farms. Today, it's less than two percent. Why are there so few farmers today? It's not because we're eating less.<br /><br />A century of productivity growth in farming means that now, a couple of million farmers can feed a nation of 320 million. That's amazing progress, but it also means there are only so many O-ring jobs left in farming. So clearly, technology can eliminate jobs. As automation frees our time, increases the scope of what is possible, we invent new products, new ideas, new services that command our attention, occupy our time and spur consumption.<br /><br />As our tools improve, technology magnifies our leverage and increases the importance of our expertise and our judgment and our creativity.<br /><br />#workautomation #futureofwork #automation #robotics #artificialintelligence <br /><a href="https://youtu.be/th3nnEpITz0" class="embedly-card" data-card-recommend="0" data-card-width="100%">https://youtu.be/th3nnEpITz0</a><script async src="//cdn.embedly.com/widgets/platform.js" charset="UTF-8"></script>Deepak Ravlanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09789437767809698790noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9761116.post-1833750561626353032017-11-09T00:42:00.000+05:302019-03-06T20:41:26.568+05:30Add new messages in a Slack channel as Asana tasks<strong>Add new messages in a Slack channel as Asana tasks</strong><br /><br />Add action items to a department or individual’s to-do list straight from Slack. When there’s a task to assign, post the task to the dedicated Slack channel, like #Operations or #Finance. Zapier watches for new messages in a channel and posts them to Asana as assigned tasks. That way, new tasks are in front of the right person to get the job done without them needing to switch between apps.<br /><br />#slack #asana #zapier #workautomation<br /><a href="https://zapier.com/zapbook/zaps/14165/add-new-messages-in-a-slack-channel-as-asana-tasks" class="embedly-card" data-card-recommend="0" data-card-width="100%">https://zapier.com/zapbook/zaps/14165/add-new-messages-in-a-slack-channel-as-asana-tasks</a><script async src="//cdn.embedly.com/widgets/platform.js" charset="UTF-8"></script>Deepak Ravlanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09789437767809698790noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9761116.post-24601787170898121252017-07-18T19:55:00.000+05:302018-05-24T19:30:10.863+05:30Google Assistant: There is no better search engine of answering<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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