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Intelligent machines: Is technology about to decimate white-collar work?

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    Kent Sharkey
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    MIT Technology Review[^]:

    Kai-Fu Lee, the former head of Google research in China and a top tech investor, sees a huge opportunity to automate routine office work.

    If your job can be replaced by a program, maybe it's for the best?

    After all, John Henry got replaced (well, as the story goes, died, but you know what I mean).

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      MIT Technology Review[^]:

      Kai-Fu Lee, the former head of Google research in China and a top tech investor, sees a huge opportunity to automate routine office work.

      If your job can be replaced by a program, maybe it's for the best?

      After all, John Henry got replaced (well, as the story goes, died, but you know what I mean).

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      Joe Woodbury
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      Just getting rid of so much manual paperwork would be a leap forward.

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        MIT Technology Review[^]:

        Kai-Fu Lee, the former head of Google research in China and a top tech investor, sees a huge opportunity to automate routine office work.

        If your job can be replaced by a program, maybe it's for the best?

        After all, John Henry got replaced (well, as the story goes, died, but you know what I mean).

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        Mycroft Holmes
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        I've been writing software that eliminates office donkey work for decades - they seem to find more every year. The new buzz on the block - software robots to do the repetitive office work. Ffaaaaarrkkk they are scripts you idjits!

        Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH

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          MIT Technology Review[^]:

          Kai-Fu Lee, the former head of Google research in China and a top tech investor, sees a huge opportunity to automate routine office work.

          If your job can be replaced by a program, maybe it's for the best?

          After all, John Henry got replaced (well, as the story goes, died, but you know what I mean).

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          Tomaz Stih 0
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          It's hopeless. Technology itself will never defeat regulation that generates imaginary work.

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            MIT Technology Review[^]:

            Kai-Fu Lee, the former head of Google research in China and a top tech investor, sees a huge opportunity to automate routine office work.

            If your job can be replaced by a program, maybe it's for the best?

            After all, John Henry got replaced (well, as the story goes, died, but you know what I mean).

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            Rob Grainger
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            I'm in favour of automating tasks that are amenable to automation, with the caveat that we need social mechanisms to share the benefits, instead of making the rich even more filthy rich and leaving the majority without a means of earning a living.

            "If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough." Alan Kay.

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              I'm in favour of automating tasks that are amenable to automation, with the caveat that we need social mechanisms to share the benefits, instead of making the rich even more filthy rich and leaving the majority without a means of earning a living.

              "If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough." Alan Kay.

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              Frank Alviani
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              making the rich even more filthy rich and leaving the majority without a means of earning a living.

              " is what's going to happen. :(( It's been happening for thousands of years - I see no reason for history to abruptly change course now.

              'PLAN' is NOT one of those four-letter words.
              'When money talks, nobody listens to the customer anymore.'

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                I'm in favour of automating tasks that are amenable to automation, with the caveat that we need social mechanisms to share the benefits, instead of making the rich even more filthy rich and leaving the majority without a means of earning a living.

                "If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough." Alan Kay.

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                ZurdoDev
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                Rob Grainger wrote:

                and leaving the majority without a means of earning a living.

                I will gladly hire you to sort my shoes for me.

                There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data. There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.

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                  MIT Technology Review[^]:

                  Kai-Fu Lee, the former head of Google research in China and a top tech investor, sees a huge opportunity to automate routine office work.

                  If your job can be replaced by a program, maybe it's for the best?

                  After all, John Henry got replaced (well, as the story goes, died, but you know what I mean).

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                  Marc Clifton
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                  It's sort of ironic. We used to do useful things, then the bean counters came along and all of a sudden we are doing lots of "routine", repetitive "work." Now they want to automate it. Why don't we just fix the problem and get rid of the routine work?

                  Latest Article - Class-less Coding - Minimalist C# and Why F# and Function Programming Has Some Advantages Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802

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                    It's sort of ironic. We used to do useful things, then the bean counters came along and all of a sudden we are doing lots of "routine", repetitive "work." Now they want to automate it. Why don't we just fix the problem and get rid of the routine work?

                    Latest Article - Class-less Coding - Minimalist C# and Why F# and Function Programming Has Some Advantages Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802

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                    Nelek
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                    Marc Clifton wrote:

                    Now they want to automate it. Why don't we just fix the problem and get rid of the routine work?

                    Easy... that would imply common sense, and that's not so common as false intelligence

                    M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.

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