Automation

The Essence of Automation

Automation is ancient technology that, when fused with artificial intelligence, will utterly transform the economy and our place in the world.

What do we call the fusion of automation and machine learning?

In the end, the smart home wars will be decided by business models, and Amazon is best positioned to win.

Autonomous systems generate feedback loops of machine learning and automation that predict, judge and act without human intervention.

A look at how the market for home and office-based social robots might be quite decentralized.

When we relegate human labor to the work machines haven’t yet learned, the results can be dehumanizing.

We need to create more transparency in the algorithms that shape our world.

Will our initiative and capacity for human connection be what saves us from technological unemployment in an era of intelligent machines?

IBM’s artificial intelligence unleashes a second wave of automation in the travel industry and sets its strategy against Google and Facebook.

A detailed summary of W. Brian Arthur’s book, The Nature of Technology: What It Is and How It Evolves