AI and robots are making our food – The Wall Street Journal
DUBLIN – For some time now, there has been discussion about the growing reality of automation. Robots and artificial intelligences are getting smarter and as they do, they are able to take a growing array of tasks that used to be done by humans. Now, obviously, this has been happening since we invented the wheel. But the pace of automation, the sophistication of the jobs that robots can now do, and the scale of the threat to existing jobs makes this a whole new phase in our economic development. In the long term, this is a good thing and will likely help our descendants live better lives. In the short term, however, the picture is less rosy. The last time technology so disrupted the workplace – the Industrial Revolution – the result was mass unemployment, social dislocation, poverty, widespread disease (from new industrial pollutants), and a host of social ills including the rise of alcoholism. Let's hope we do a better job managing the disruption this time. – Felicity Duncan
By Natasha Khan
(The Wall Street Journal) Robots that see underpin the future of self-driving cars, humanoid robots and autonomous drones.
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