![]() ![]() ![]() His work at University of Toronto and then Google, has been instrumental in the development of a number of applications, including automatic translation system, personal assistants like Siri, driverless systems or medical diagnosis. Geoffrey Hinton, who just received the BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Information and Communications Technologies, teaches machines to think like people. An obvious example we’ll always need people, like BBVA Foundation award winner Geoffrey Hinton, to develop each new machine we use. In the same way, it is expected artificial intelligence will lead to further waves of innovation, unlocking new job roles and creating resources that allow firms to hire more people into existing positions. That was because the technology created greater productivity, freeing humans to take up new tasks. During the industrial revolution, mechanization may have displaced laborers – but it also produced new opportunity in an abundance of sectors, from care and creative to technology and business services. ![]() So, are we on the brink of a mass global unemployment? A sift through the historical evidence says no: census data studies show that, over the last 140 years, technology actually created more jobs than it destroyed. Two-thirds of those losses will land in the office and administrative sectors staffed by the global middle class. By 2020, 5 million jobs will be lost to artificial intelligence and robotics alone, according to the World Economic Forum. It’s estimated that 45% of the current workload humans are currently paid to do could be automated by technologies that exist right now. The above is the tip of the automated iceberg in the coming years artificial intelligence and robotics are expected to create a wave of displacement right across the job market, from truck drivers and supermarket cashiers to journalists and even CEOs. This new generation of machines, biodegradable and capable of interacting with the human body, will help us conquer planets, repair the environment, or cure illnesses. Microscopic like a bacterium or soft like a jellyfish, the robots of the future will no longer be stiff emotionless metal monsters. ![]()
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