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Smart Systems Threaten More Jobs Than Outsourcing

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the replaced-by-a-very-small-shell-script dept.

fbform writes "A strategy consulting firm called Strategy Analytics has announced that outsourcing to India and other countries is a small threat compared to having IT jobs replaced by 'smart systems'. Quote from a different news-source: 'higher value-added jobs - involving identification, assessment, conclusions, decisions, and recommendations - will continue to be lost to systems with increasingly intelligent capabilities'." Such as this one.

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  1. Maintenance? by simp · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Great. And who will keep these clever systems up and running 24h * 365days? And who will troubleshoot it when it malfunctions?

    The more complicated the systems are the more people are needed to keep it running.