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I wonder how articles like this always consider management to be safe from automation. If there is something that can be done better by computers than humans, i
by pgeorgi 13y ago
I wonder how articles like this always consider management to be safe from automation. If there is something that can be done better by computers than humans, it's unemotional number crunching (like risk assessment or other decision making).
You still need to enter the right questions and numbers and then act on the result, but I see quite some slack in that field that could be optimized away once the right product shows up.
- rohall 13y agoThis is actually really interesting. I wonder how well it would work when combined with self managing teams. It might provide the oversight needed to make business decisions while still letting the team figure out the best structure for the success of a project (I'm thinking about software dev particularly).
- rm445 13y agoInteresting (and slightly terrifying) short story that was posted here a while back, positing that computer vision and speech would make middle management obsolete first. It makes for quite different consequences to the usual vision, that the workers are in trouble but the managers are safe. http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm