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FEARtober

Day 14 - Automatophobia

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First robot in history to ace No. 16 at Waste Management

Progress. 19 years after Tiger Woods.

In the opening round of the 2016 Waste Management Phoenix Open, LDRIC the golf robot gets a hole-in-one on the par-3 16th hole.

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Deutsche Bank has launched a computerized investment advisory service, seeking to keep up with other asset managers who have started introducing "robo advisers" to help certain clients create portfolios inexpensively.

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Meet the New Boss: The World’s First Artificial-Intelligence Manager?

Last week, Hitachi announced a new initiative in which artificial intelligence technology is being used to determine workflows and employee duties in real time. That's right: Your boss could finally be replaced by a robot.

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Virtual Assistants and automatic border control at Frankfurt Airport

Met this prealpha airport virtual assistant hologram-like projection employee at Frankfurt Airport last week. Her sad reality: Nobody listened. Everyone went directly to the baggage drop-off employees. Luckily she remained cheerful and stoic.

Also noteworthy: The passport / border control machines - which use facial recognition software for comparing your ID image with your face (note: don't wear a cap) - were allowed to rest in the earlyearly morning hours and the immigration officers had to work. Poor officials. No future and to make matters worse inhuman schedules.

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CREATIVITY VS. ROBOTS - The creativity economy and the future of employment

Nesta released a follow-up to their "Our Work Here is Done: Visions of a Robot Economy" report from 2014. This time they are looking at creativity in the UK and how creative jobs will be more resistant to automation in the future.

In 'Creativity vs Robots' we show that creativity is inversely related to computerisability: 87 per cent of highly creative workers are at low or no risk of automation, compared with 40 per cent of jobs in the UK workforce as a whole. At the regional level, we see that places with a higher proportion of the workforce in creative jobs, most obviously London, are also more immune to automation.

Such findings should not be surprising: they reflect the fact that machines can most successfully emulate humans when a problem is well specified in advance – that is, when performance can be straightforwardly quantified and evaluated – and when the work task environment is sufficiently simple to enable autonomous control. They will struggle when tasks are highly interpretive, geared at ‘products whose final form is not fully specified in advance’, and when work task environments are complex – a good description of most creative occupations.

A further new study for Nesta shows that creative occupations tend to be characterised by higher than average levels of life satisfaction, worthwhileness and happiness – but also higher levels of anxiety.

[Read the report (PDF)]