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Revisiting the Jobs Artificial Intelligence Will Create (mit.edu)

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the Singularity-re-visited dept.

Long-time Slashdot reader occidental shares a link to the audio of a new interview with the authors of the 2017 article "The Jobs That Artificial Intelligence Will Create" Authors Paul Daugherty and H. James Wilson show that four soft skills are becoming much more valuable as human-machine collaboration advances. These skills include complex reasoning, creativity, social and emotional intelligence, and sensory perception.

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  1. So 90% of the human race are excluded? by gweihir · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Because they do not have those. This is pretty much on the level of the fairy-tales climate-change deniers tell themselves.
    Only effect: Even less prepared when the inevitable happens.

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  2. "Soft skills"? by K.+S.+Kyosuke · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Complex reasoning is "a soft skill"? Since when? (Also, I'm somewhat dubious that any kind of intelligence can be labeled as "a skill", as opposed to a trait or something.)

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  3. Any job that is replaced by AI and automation by Just+A+Gigolo · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Must be taxed to the full extent by the goverments, so that billions of people that are replaced by it can be fed, clothed and provided a place to live.