Julia Kirby,Thomas H. Davenport

Only Humans Need Apply

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An invigorating, thought-provoking, and positive look at the rise of automation that explores how professionals across industries can find sustainable careers in the near future.
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.
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385 printed pages
Original publication
2016
Publication year
2016
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  • Maria Talathas quoted4 years ago
    What if the effect of the pairing were to make humans more capable of what they are good at (and likewise, machines even better at what they do)? That would be augmentation. More than a division of labor, it would constitute a multiplication of value.
  • Maria Talathas quoted4 years ago
    If you are a motivated knowledge worker, trying to do your best, augmentation has your back
  • Maria Talathas quoted4 years ago
    augmentation—in which humans and computers combine their strengths to achieve more favorable outcomes than either could alone.

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