'Artificial intelligence will help' but 'some jobs will go' Toby Walsh 16/8/2019
Toby Walsh is a leading researcher in Artificial Intelligence. He is a Laureate Fellow and Scientia Professor of Artificial Intelligence in the School of Computer Science and Engineering at UNSW Sydney, and he is also an adjunct fellow at CSIRO Data61. He was named by the Australian newspaper as a "rock star" of Australia's digital revolution [ accessed 19/6/2022 @ http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~tw/ ]
Students being able to "learn on their own is the most important skill of the future" Toby Walsh
Education needs to change for an AI world. We must be preparing our young people for the second half of the century. Students going to kindy today will be spending their working lives in the second half of the century. Will a robot take their job...?
Toby Walsh is a leading researcher in Artificial Intelligence. He is a Laureate Fellow and Scientia Professor of Artificial Intelligence in the School of Computer Science and Engineering at UNSW Sydney, and he is also an adjunct fellow at CSIRO Data61. He was named by the Australian newspaper as a "rock star" of Australia's digital revolution [ accessed 19/6/2022 @ http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~tw/ ]
Students being able to "learn on their own is the most important skill of the future" Toby Walsh
Education needs to change for an AI world. We must be preparing our young people for the second half of the century. Students going to kindy today will be spending their working lives in the second half of the century. Will a robot take their job...?
- Driverless cars
- Automated car making
- Computers flying aeroplanes
- Translating a language using an app on your phone
- Automated ports: Cranes are now taking containers off of ships with no human involvement
- Quicker cheaper reading on xrays: should we still be training radiologists?
- Hawk-eye technology in tennis
- Mining is the second most dangerous job: Driverless dump trucks are reducing deaths on mine sites
- Robots folding towels
- Photomath App
Rio Tinto's AutoHaul train operating in the Pilbara is the worlds longest robot and cost $1,000,000,000. The train has improved productivity and has fewer accidents.
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