AI is already snatching up jobs left and right. The latest big tech company to automate jobs is Google. According to a new report by The Information, Google is looking to reassign or let go of sales workers whose jobs were automated by the company’s new AI tools.
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Survey Finds Out What Remote Workers Do When Working From Home
Taking a phone call, watching Netflix, cooking food, and caring for children are only some of the distractions remote workers deal with daily. And with the uncertainty of when they will be able to return to the office, many will continue juggling between different duties while working remotely.
A New Role For Humans: Prepping Data So AI Can Learn To Do Our Jobs
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The Next Economy will be driven by 10 key emerging technologies, underpinned by artificial intelligence. The vision is that it will become a general purpose technology, like a utility, that is likely to scale across every industry, every sector of our economy and nearly every aspect of science, society and culture.
Here Come The Robots with Evan Shellshear
This episode of the Big Bang podcast is part of the Next Economy Series, where I interview experts who are thinking and working on the cutting edge of emergent technologies that will shape the next 20 years. …
For innovation: culture trumps office design
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Blu Maya office at IOS Offices Tijuana
Innovation Labs, either accelerators or corporate bunkers, are now becoming commonplace. As a result, workspace design is booming.
Browse around the web, and you’ll quickly see articles about startups that have designed their workspace to resemble their culture. For established companies trying to create a culture of innovation, this means copying the same design mantra of most startups, but more interesting is how they are using gimmicks to get people to collaborate.
Up there with “innovation”, “lean startup”and “design thinking”, the latest word to make it to buzzword-bingo is “Lab”. Whatever you think the definition of a Lab is, it is not what you think. I see them more as a workspace that let’s people collaborate right there on the spot, not at an offsite space where only a special few congregate. If a company calls their workspace a lab, it means anyone can take their gear, desk, and move it to be close to their collaborators.
This means that what in the corporate world used to mean that the R&D guys were the ones responsible for creating the future (aka innovation), they no longer hold the distinction of being the official innovators. No longer is everyone else, just everyone else.
No, today innovation is everyone’s job.…