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Alibaba Chairman Jack Ma Believes Robots Could be CEOs Within 30 Years
Speaking at a China Entrepreneur Club event, Alibaba Chairman Jack Ma addressed the upcoming workplace disruption that will be brought about by robots and the advancement of artificial intelligence. Ma spoke of the world experiencing more pain than happiness within the next 30 years due to this disruption if humans…
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Yahoo Lost One-Third of Its Staff in 2015
Ailing multinational company Yahoo has lost over a third of its workforce over the last twelve months, in a shocking show of no-confidence in current CEO Marissa Mayer, according to a report in the New York Times. “Basically, it shows employees losing faith in Marissa Mayer and Yahoo,” Scott Dobroski,…
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One Third of UK Jobs to Become Automated
In this post-industrial age, the world’s labour market has shifted from machinery making the jobs of people easier and more efficient to automated technology – computerised systems and robotics – that remove the need for people entirely. Professional service firm Deloitte predict that one third of all jobs in the…
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First Robot Olympics To be Hosted by Tokyo in 2020
Japan has high hopes of bringing a new type of Olympics in 2020, alongside the actual summer games. Shimzo Abe, Japan’s Prime Minister, said that he hopes to bring the world’s first Robot Olympics, having discussed the creation of ‘robotic revolution’. He apparently wants to gather all robots around the…
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