As Americans prepare to return to offices and other places of work, a new poll reveals that many worry about how long their jobs will last. Many office workers now believe the skills they’ve learned won’t be able to keep up in a world relying more and more on artificial intelligence.
A study of 2,000 American office workers found that 53 percent fear their skills will be outdated in less than five years. They worry this makes them susceptible to being replaced by robots or other forms of artificial intelligence. The vast majority of respondents said they’d feel more secure about their jobs if they could “learn while they earn.” Read More
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The next step for artificial intelligence: full-fledged interaction between man and machine – Innovation Origins
The next step for artificial intelligence: full-fledged interaction between man and machine – Innovation Origins
Frank van Harmelen is a professor in Knowledge Representation & Reasoning at the Department of Artificial Intelligence at the Free University of Amsterdam and director of the Hybrid Intelligence Centre. We talked to him about the latest developments in the field of cooperation between man and machine, i.e., between human and artificial intelligence. Why is it so crucial that humankind is at the center of such collaboration? And what does this collaboration look like in the future? “We have to let go of the idea that machine intelligence will eventually become like human intelligence. The two are very different, so we have to find out how these two can best strengthen each other.” Read More