The Robots Are Taking Our Jobs

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"The Future of Employment: How susceptible are jobs to computerisation?"
http://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/publications/view/1314
Full paper: http://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/downlo ... oyment.pdf
(The table in the Appendix lists all 702 occupations ranked according to their probability of computerisation.)

If you do not feel like wading through the original paper, then here is a brief article about it:
"Your Job Taught to Machines Puts Half U.S. Work at Risk"
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-03-1 ... -risk.html

My job could easily be done by a machine...if they bothered to maintain equipment to eliminate the multitude of defects that need to be caught before packaging. Otherwise, they'd need almost fully-functional AI to distinguish good from bad so they don't ship a lot of bad product (or jam up the works when the bad stuff doesn't feed properly).

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