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Wrong question. You should be asking, what groups have been granted large productivity gains due to information systems and now run substantially leaner. E.g.
by b_tterc_p 8y ago
Wrong question. You should be asking, what groups have been granted large productivity gains due to information systems and now run substantially leaner.
E.g. secretaries, call center employees, accountants, etc.
- scottlocklin 8y agoStatisticians. That's it! And it's one of the hottest job fields right now with the fancy name "data scientist." All the recent improvements in machine learning have done is make certain kinds of statistical thinking possible, and that's it. It's not eliminating anyone's job; it's actually growing the market for statisticians. Anyway parent poster said "a lot of people will lose their jobs soon" because of "AI." I deny this has or will happen, and people's misunderstanding of it is downright criminal.
- b_tterc_p 8y agoNot just statistics jobs. Also bad jobs. More bad jobs in fact. Information systems have created the ease of the gig economy. It allows people to provide more granular, on demand jobs. The net effect is more jobs. This may be a bad thinf