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Anna Dubinina

How robots will reshape the economy (based on U.S. example) - 0 views

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CIS science technology Social economy robots

shared by Anna Dubinina on 21 Mar 16 - No Cached
  • Few doubt that our future — both immediate and long term — will be heavily impacted by robots
  • A pair of Oxford researchers recently estimated that 47 percent of the total U.S. employment is at risk of being eliminated.
  • On the other end of the spectrum, Mercedes announced it is trading out some of its production robots for human labor — the machines could not keep up with the increasing options for customization
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  • robots in the workplace will likely help reverse this trend.
  • The vast majority of automation technology will not outright replace humans; instead, it will simply make their work more efficient.
  • As the global supply chain matured, market pressures drove American companies to offshore their work to other countries that offered inexpensive labor
  • This is not to say that all white-collar workers should enroll in engineering night classes, but knowing how technology works at a base level will make you better at your job 
  • Employers need to actively promote training programs that empower employees to work more effectively with new tech.
alexbelov

Bank layoffs are coming due to Uberisation of the industry - Business Insider - 2 views

uk.businessinsider.com/bank-layoffs-are-coming-2016-3

Social economy banking automation bank layoffs

shared by alexbelov on 01 Apr 16 - No Cached
  • Banks are quickly approaching their "automation tipping point," and they could soon reduce headcount by as much as 30%.
  • "Banks' Uber moment will mean a disintermediation of bank branches rather than the banks themselves
  • it will mean the shift to mobile distribution being the main channel of interaction between customers and the bank
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  • The job cuts Citi is describing would add up to more than 1.8 million job losses from current levels in the banking sector in the US and Europe over the next 10 years.
  • As more transactions are automated and done on a mobile phone, we believe there will be a rebalancing of staff from transaction-based roles to advisory-based roles
  • alexbelov on 01 Apr 16
     
    Clients do transactions using their mobile phones now which allows banks to massively reduce their staff.
alexbelov

Microsoft is bringing bots to Skype - and everywhere else | TechCrunch - 0 views

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bots skype microsoft Technology

shared by alexbelov on 05 Apr 16 - No Cached
  • Microsoft’s own virtual assistant Cortana, aim to help pave the way for the future of communication, productivity, and interactions with businesses and brands.
  • In Skype, the company showed off rich Cortana integration which put the assistant directly into the app where she could help users do things like identify the persons, places and things in your messages, underline them, and then display more info in a card-like interface when clicked.
  • She is also able to help you perform a variety of tasks, like adding items to your calendar, booking travel or hotel rooms, or even pre-populating conversations to friends with text.
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  • The bots’ integration in Skype is rolling out today on Windows, iOS and Android as a preview.
  • The company launched the first-ever Skype Bot SDK, which lets brands, businesses and other third parties create their own bots that can work on Skype, seamlessly integrating into users’ chats. These aren’t just text bots, as many of the SMS-based virtual assistance startups we’ve seen so far – Skype bots can introduce both audio and video experiences
  • The company is also launching a bot directory, giving us a brief peek at a few bots it had created itself.
  • Bots “represent a huge opportunity to write new types of applications,” Nadella told developers
  • alexbelov on 05 Apr 16
     
    Microsoft jumps bots bandwagon by introducing bots ecosystem in skype, which includes bot development kit, bot framework and bot directory.
isoldatenkova

Venture Capital Is Putting Its Money Into Astrology - The New York Times - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...logy-apps-venture-capital.html

Technology social millennials

shared by isoldatenkova on 19 Apr 19 - No Cached
  • Meditation, Ms. Guler said, is an antisocial way of interacting with the world. She views astrology as a form of collective wellness, with Co-Star helping people relate to each other based on star signs. Another big difference between astrology and meditation’s practitioners: Astrologers are not allergic to making money.
  • Co-Star promotes its use of artificial intelligence and data from NASA to track movements of the stars.
  • the selfie-loving nanoinfluencer generation is eager to hear that they’re unique and special, no matter how woo-woo it seems
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  • What’s better than something that is basically a story about you?”
  • isoldatenkova on 19 Apr 19
     
    "Millennials (and the rest of us) are lonely and want community, no matter how many followers we have on social media. Why wouldn't we turn to the stars and moons and planets and houses of the horoscope?"
nrybakov

AI can write surprisingly scary and creative horror stories - 0 views

www.engadget.com/...ites-horror-stories-on-twitter

AI Entertainment Storytelling

shared by nrybakov on 08 Apr 19 - No Cached
  • The team used 140,000 horror stories from the subreddit r/nosleep to teach the AI how to tell a horror story that a human would find intelligible, compelling and scary. Perhaps the most interesting aspect of Shelley, though, is her reliance on human interaction to facilitate her storytelling.
  • AI can write surprisingly scary and creative horror stories
  • nrybakov on 08 Apr 19
     
    AI Shelley writes scary stories together with human users
zolotarev

Q1 2019 Social Trends - eMarketer Trends, Forecasts & Statistics - 2 views

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social networks social platforms

shared by zolotarev on 21 Apr 19 - No Cached
  • “We plan to build this [platform] the way we’ve developed WhatsApp: focus on the most fundamental and private use case—messaging
  • WeChat Pay and Tenpay (Tencent’s business-oriented payment platform) accounted for 38.8% of the total amount spent via mobile payments in China during Q3 2018
  • games were the most popular category of miniprograms, used by 42% of WeChat miniprogram users in China
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  • and then build more ways for people to interact on top of that, including calls, video chats, groups, Stories, businesses, payments, commerce, and ultimately a platform for many other kinds of private services,” Zuckerberg wrote.
  • Advertisers worldwide will continue to shift spending from the News Feed to Stories, slowing ad revenue growth for Facebook in 2019. Stories monetize at a lower rate than the News Feed.
  • More social commerce: Facebook is likely to expand its “Checkout on Instagram” to new countries and companies throughout 2019.
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