Should a robot manager look like Sophia?

Have you ever been on a date with a robot? I have been, or at least in a few cases I thought so. In the days of Tinder, you can meet people who can associate with a robot made by Hong Kong-based Hanson Robotics, regardless of gender. The robot was the first to become a citizen of Saudi Arabia in October 2017, becoming the first robot to receive citizenship of any country. Sophia is endowed with artificial intelligence, can adapt

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HAL 9000 – how to win against the robot that is your boss?

Do you remember the computer that rebelled against humanity when it sent its spaceship Discovery One towards Jupiter to investigate the source of a strange signal related to the Monolith? I’m writing, of course, about the HAL 9000 computer from the film 2001: A Space Odyssey, directed by Stanley Kubrick, where the main character David Bowman, as the sole survivor of the ship’s crew, must defeat the rebellious machine-manager. How did this happen? Invented a few years earlier, a supercomputer

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When will artificial intelligence put us out of work?

Do you realize that your grandchildren may no longer be employed, in jobs that were until recently only for humans? Writing songs that will top the charts or conducting scientific research will be handled by robots in just 20-30 years. In 2016, a group of researchers from Oxford University and Yale University conducted a survey to prepare a prediction of when Artificial Intelligence will overtake humans in performing tasks at work. Prior to the survey, the term “High-level machine intelligence”

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Could your boss be a robot?

Have you ever wondered what your job would be like if your boss was a robot? If you are the boss – how much would your day change if you could buy a robot manager? And finally – if you set up two identical companies, selling the same products, which one would be more efficient and achieve better results – the first, managed by a human, or the second, whose boss would be a robot? I asked myself these questions

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