Week one - Balt 4396 autonomy and automation
This week, I dove into the power of AI autonomy and automation. The concept that AI is slowly making human jobs obsolete because it can finish jobs more efficiently with minimal error. Granted, there are jobs that AI can not recreate; That begs the question of what schooling someone should go into. Careers like finance, research, data analysis, etc are all in a threatening state for job loss with the vast advancement of AI. In Surfing the Tsunami, "Regardless of the viewpoint, highly-automated manufacturing and completely automated manufacturing are here to stay." (Page, 13). Although Robots are not autonomous yet, through the use of AI and programming, they are able to perform basic human tasks. At the same time, I learned that automation is not limited to physical robots; it is happening even more rapidly in software. Tasks like data analysis, financial processing, and decision making are increasingly being handled by AI through technologies like machine learning and robo...