“There is noise currently being made about adopting a 4-day working week in the UK, and Unite is furthering that call here. No small thing, given that the union represents 1.2 million workers. “Unite has undertaken an in-depth analysis of the threats automation poses to the 21 sectors of the British and Irish economy where…
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Automation technologies, AI, and robotics are critical CIO targets
AI-enhanced RPA. “AI is only one dimension of automation, which also includes many sub-AI-level algorithms and tools. But increasingly, AI suffuses and boosts many different automation technologies — or will do so in the near future. For example, while RPA is creating a lot of operational value today, its future lies in cognitive-AI enhancement, a…
McDonald’s wants to become the Amazon of fast-food
“McDonald’s plans to install Dynamic Yield’s technology in its drive-thrus and self-order kiosks, as well as on its mobile app. The AI-powered software will let McDonald’s change what’s displayed on its digital menu boards based on factors including what a customer has already ordered, along with local weather and traffic conditions. More broadly, McDonald’s can…
Billionaire couple donates $100M to UofT for AI research and new complex
“Geoffrey Hinton, an artificial intelligence pioneer and a retired professor from the university, said the donation will be a boon for the burgeoning field. ‘It will help consolidate Toronto’s leading position in the AI world,’ Hinton said in a statement. ‘It will also bring together scholars from an array of disciplines to study the implications…
The 5 Hottest Technologies In Banking
“For all the talk and hype surrounding technologies like AI and blockchain, just a little more than one in 10 mid-size ($500m to $50b assets) financial institutions will invest in chatbots or machine learning this year according to a study from Cornerstone Advisors. Cornerstone has surveyed financial institutions to find out which technologies they plan to…