Automation Of Professional Occupations Coming?

Robots have been automating blue collar occupations such as manufacturing. But some heavily cerebral occupations have been immune to automation. But that ' s starting to change. Robots are going to automate some professional occupations They list manual dexterity as one of the human skills that robots have a hard time with. But it really depends on setting and risks. A robotic fruit picker has easier safety requirements than a robotic nurse. A robotic fruit picker also has an enormously shorter list of tasks than does a robotic nurse. Highly routine professional tasks are more prone to automation. A substantial chunk of accounting can get automated, especially as more of the data arrives in automated data flows with standard formats. One claim...

Source: FuturePundit - July 30, 2016 Category: Research Authors: Randall Parker Source Type: blogs