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Only Humans Need Apply
Winners and Losers in the Age of Smart Machines
By: Thomas Hayes Davenport, Julia Kirby (As told to)
Hardcover | 23 May 2016
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Nearly half of all working Americans could risk losing their jobs because of technology. It’s not only blue-collar jobs at stake. Millions of educated knowledge workers—writers, paralegals, assistants, medical technicians—are threatened by accelerating advances in artificial intelligence.
The industrial revolution shifted workers from farms to factories. In the first era of automation, machines relieved humans of manually exhausting work. Today, Era Two of automation continues to wash across the entire services-based economy that has replaced jobs in agriculture and manufacturing. Era Three, and the rise of AI, is dawning. Smart computers are demonstrating they are capable of making better decisions than humans. Brilliant technologies can now decide, learn, predict, and even comprehend much faster and more accurately than the human brain, and their progress is accelerating. Where will this leave lawyers, nurses, teachers, and editors
In Only Humans Need Apply, Thomas Hayes Davenport and Julia Kirby reframe the conversation about automation, arguing that the future of increased productivity and business success isn’t either human or machine. It’s both. The key is augmentation, utilizing technology to help humans work better, smarter, and faster. Instead of viewing these machines as competitive interlopers, we can see them as partners and collaborators in creative problem solving as we move into the next era. The choice is ours.
About the Author
Thomas Davenport is the president's distinguished professor in management and information technology at Babson College. Davenport is also co-founder of the International Institute for Analytics, a Fellow of the MIT Center for Digital Business, and a Senior Advisor to Deloitte Analytics. He teaches analytics and big data in executive programs at Babson, Harvard Business School, MIT Sloan School, and Boston University. He the author or coauthor of fifteen books. Julia Kirby is a editor-at-large for Harvard Business Review.
She is the co-author of Standing on the Sun: How the Explosion of Captialism Abroad Will Change Business Everywhere.
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ISBN: 9780062438614
ISBN-10: 0062438611
Published: 23rd May 2016
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number of Pages: 288
Audience: General Adult
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Country of Publication: US
Dimensions (cm): 23.7 x 16.5 x 2.5
Weight (kg): 0.44
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