Whole Foods Quality at Walmart Prices
Before stepping into Plenty Inc.’s indoor farm on the banks of the San Francisco Bay, make sure you’re wearing pants and closed-toe shoes. Heels aren’t allowed. If you have long hair, tie it back.
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Why Your Next Boss Will Be A Robot – Hacker Noon
Artificial intelligence software and robots are powerful in pattern recognition, predictive analytics, heavy computations, and handling repetitive tasks. Thanks to these capabilities, machines are gradually replacing humans in many occupations and activities.
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Raising Wages to Help Workers Could Help Robots Replace Them
UNIONS AND PRO-LABOR groups around the world campaign for higher minimum wages and stronger job-protection laws. Last year, seven U.S. states including California and New York approved future increases in their hourly minimums to $12 or more.
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Aging Japan Wants Automation, Not Immigration
Japan’s next boom may be at hand, driven by the very thing that is supposed to be bad for its economy. Japan’s aging and shrinking population has been partly blamed for the on-again, off-again nature of growth and deflation the past three decades.
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‘Workplace robots will widen pension savings gap to £2.3tn’
The UK’s retirement savings gap would widen to £2.3tn if Bank of England forecasts of the number of jobs lost to robots come to pass, according to new analysis. Hymans Robertson, the pension consultants, issued the warning based on the Bank’s estimates that a third of UK jobs were at high risk by 2030.
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Now Silicon Valley techies think they can live for ever
Arram Sabeti pulled back his T-shirt sleeve to reveal a disc about the size of a £2 coin implanted in his shoulder. “It’s a glucose monitor,” he said proudly. “I change it every two weeks.”
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Will AI-powered robots really steal my job?
In 1929, the economist John Maynard Keynes made a prediction. Over the course of the next century, he wrote, standards of living in the affluent world would rise between four and eight times to the point where humanity was presented with a new problem: “how to occupy the leisure which science and compound interest will have won for him, wisely and agreeably and well?”
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Robots and AI can bring down pension age, says TUC
The TUC has urged the government to use productivity gains from the greater use of robots and AI to reverse planned changes to the state pension age.
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Microscopic lasers may stop tumours spreading around the body
IT IS more than 50 years since “Fantastic Voyage” hit the cinemas. The film’s premise, shrinking a submarine and her crew to the point where they can travel through a patient’s bloodstream to repair damage in situ, though entertaining, remains as absurd as it was in 1966.
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What will happen when robots take our jobs?
Las Vegas is where you go for old-fashioned fun, but I’ve got an appointment with the future. It’s 7am and the sun is beginning to rise over faux Paris, New York, Venice and the Egyptian pyramids when a silver BMW pulls up on the Strip to pick me up.
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Elon Musk leads 116 experts calling for outright ban of killer robots | The Guardian
Some of the world’s leading robotics and artificial intelligence pioneers are calling on the United Nations to ban the development and use of killer robots.
Elon Musk and Alphabet’s Mustafa Suleyman are leading a group of 116 specialists from across 26 countries who are calling for the ban on autonomous weapons.
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