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This Is How AI Can Unlock Hidden Talent In The Workplace

The consumer industries workforce is facing a ‘double disruption’ from automation and the economic impact of COVID-19. The Consumer Industries of the World Economic Forum has collaborated with Unilever, Walmart, Accenture and SkyHive on a pilot study that uses AI to map workers’ skills and match them to emerging job roles. The pilot found people have an inherent bias which makes them underestimate their skill sets. It would only take six months for people to be reskilled for new roles in completely different functions. Companies have a responsibility to upskill workers to keep them employable in the Fourth Industrial Revolution.…
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MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab Releases Groundbreaking Research on AI and the Future of Work

IBM believes 100% of jobs will eventually change due to artificial intelligence, and new empirical research released last October 30 from the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab reveals how. The research, The Future of Work: How New Technologies Are Transforming Tasks, used advanced machine learning techniques to analyze 170 million online job postings in the United States between 2010 and 2017. It shows, in the early stages of AI adoption, how tasks of individual jobs are transforming and the impact on employment and wages. “As new technologies continue to scale within businesses and across industries, it is our responsibility as innovators to understand not only the business…
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