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Japanese White-Collar Workers Are Already Being Replaced by Artificial Intelligence (qz.com)

Posted by msmash on from the they-are-here dept.

Most of the attention around automation focuses on how factory robots and self-driving cars may fundamentally change our workforce, potentially eliminating millions of jobs. But AI that can handle knowledge-based, white-collar work is also becoming increasingly competent. From a report on Quartz: One Japanese insurance company, Fukoku Mutual Life Insurance, is reportedly replacing 34 human insurance claim workers with "IBM Watson Explorer," starting by this month. The AI will scan hospital records and other documents to determine insurance payouts, according to a company press release, factoring injuries, patient medical histories, and procedures administered. Automation of these research and data gathering tasks will help the remaining human workers process the final payout faster, the release says.

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  1. Don't worry, Trump has the solution by Jeremi · · Score: 4, Funny

    Turns out it's rather simple, really --- just ban computers. He's going to start by replacing computers with human couriers for the secure-messaging market, and move outward from there. By 2020 we should have most of the Internet replaced by the (now greatly expanded) Post Office.

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    I don't care if it's 90,000 hectares. That lake was not my doing.
  2. Re:As if this is new by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Nah, the economy won't completely collapse. Here is how things will play out:

    1) Labor automation continues to make the teeming masses of poor people obsolete.
    2) Unemployment continues to rise due to this.
    3) Crime rates continue to rise due to unemployment.
    4) Incarceration rates continue to rise; the prison industry continues to grow and thrive on tax dollars paid by rich people.
    5) An entire generation of poor people dies off in prison.
    6) The population shrinks back down to a workable number due to this.
    7) The rich families thrive in an interlocked economy of ownership of labor automation, while everyone else dies off in prison.

    so you see. we will have something like a living wage, but it will actually be residence in prison where you are not allowed to breed.

    The end.