BUSINESS PROCESS IMPROVEMENT
“ AUTOMATION WILL LIKELY REPLACE 58 % OF WORK ACTIVITIES AND 30 % OF TASKS , BUT ONLY 5 % OF JOBS IN THEIR ENTIRETY ”
James Dening , VP and Digital Worker Evangelist , Automation Anywhere
54 coming to take away our jobs . “ A general AI that ‘ thinks ’ and behaves like a human is almost pure fantasy if I ’ m completely honest ,” he said over a cup of coffee at Big Data LDN in November . I sat down with him in the middle of a noisy conference hall packed with data scientists to find out about the evolving relationship between human workers and the increasingly sophistical AI labour force we ’ ve been promised .
“ The thing about neural networks in particular is that they ’ re very narrow in their scope , and as a consequence they ’ re very brittle . If you change the situation even slightly they just fall apart and they can ’ t produce an answer ,” Lewis explains . “ There are things that people can do which , to be honest , I don ’ t think machines will ever be able
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