Are robots taking our jobs?
- Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2019, 5:15 pm - 6:45 pm
- Location: Ground Floor Lecture Theatre Eleanor Harrald Building, Lot Fourteen, Frome Road, Adelaide SA 5000
- Cost: FREE
- More information: Register here
- Contact: Emily Holyoak emily.holyoak@adelaide.edu.au
- Professor Anton van den Hengel Guest Speaker
Will I have to compete against a robot for my next job? What does the future workforce look like?
Join Professor Anton van den Hengel, Founding Director of the University of Adelaide’s Institute for Machine Learning (AIML) and a guest panel for an insight into how the future will look in this session, subtitled “The Terminator, and other fictitious risks to future employment”.
“Much of the fear about the impact of AI on future of employment is driven by a fundamental misunderstanding of what the technology can do now, and what it is likely to be able to do in the next 20 years,” he said.
“The scenario where the Terminator not only comes into existence, but also wants to work in a fish and chip shop is fictional at best, and predictions made on this basis are inevitably flawed. The true impact of artificial intelligence on the workforce is likely to be far more complex, and lasting.”