According to a report released earlier this year by professional services network Deloitte, venture capital and private equity companies have invested $1.87 billion in human resources and workforce-related products over the past two years, marking a huge increase over decades passed. The report took a look at growth in…
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Meet your new coworkers: cobots are coming to a workplace near you
In 2007, a General Motors commercial airing during the Super Bowl made headlines when it showed an automobile assembly line robot throwing itself off a bridge after losing it’s job. While many were critical of the advertisement for its depiction of suicide, the commercial struck a chord with others…
Fintech and the future of finance
While the anecdotes of wildly successful careers in finance still persist today, financial technology - aka 'fintech' - is creating a paradigm shift.…
The remarkable future potential of Google Assistant
We can predict in the next few years is that Google Assistant will increasingly be involved with human interaction at a casual level.…
Can universal basic income foster mass entrepreneurship?
In a world that gets further and further automated as technology progresses, humans become less and less relevant to the global task force. Sure, the robots have not invaded just yet, but we’re getting close, and its predicted to happen very, very soon. One of the proposed solutions to…
Public trust in AI is critical for its future
Sci-fi movie Upgrade centres around the relationship between a quadriplegic man and the artificial intelligence (AI) that physically controls his body. It’s explores the distrust between the protagonist and AI as a whole, with warnings of what occurs when humanity trusts and relies on AI completely. Therein lies the…