Automated Service Platforms and the Future of Work
Reading Time: 6 minutes Automated service platforms don’t just lead to large-scale unemployment in the services economy; they also redefine the nature of work.
Reading Time: 6 minutes Automated service platforms don’t just lead to large-scale unemployment in the services economy; they also redefine the nature of work.
Reading Time: 2 minutes What do we call the fusion of automation and machine learning?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Automated self-service is the front-end, automated self-service interface combined with the back-end, automated service operations.
Reading Time: 5 minutes The seeds of our primary interface with machine intelligence rest in the humble origins of the vending machine. Here is the brief story of this evolution of self-service.
Reading Time: 3 minutes The online grocery wars are heating up and the stakes are far bigger than any battle between Amazon and Walmart. The real story here is the automation of grocery stores and the service economy more broadly.
Reading Time: 5 minutes Automated self-service is Silicon Valley’s trick for automating the service economy and for fueling machine learning and the knowledge economy.
Reading Time: 7 minutes As sensors and machine learning fuse, they form a critical layer in the synthesis of machine and human intelligence.
Reading Time: < 1 minute Nonprofit, WattTime is using machine learning and satellite imagery to track worldwide power plant emissions.
Reading Time: 4 minutes Could abusing Siri and other digital assistants lead to treating other people badly?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Machine learning researchers show that the ability to conceptualize numbers (numerosity) is shared by humans, animals—and now machines.