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SUMMARY:Technology at Work: The Future of Innovation and Employment - Prof
 essor Michael Osborne\, Oxford Martin programme on Technology and Employme
 nt
DTSTART:20150512T130000Z
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CONTACT:Professor John Naughton
DESCRIPTION:_ABSTRACT_\n\nRobots and computers are inexorably developing t
 he skills to work in ways once considered quintessentially human. Think ab
 out self-driving cars\, or Amazon’s product recommendations\, or Google 
 Translate. The real question is not whether these technologies will have e
 mployment implications\, but rather: how much\, and to whom. We provide so
 me answers to these questions\, using machine learning techniques to analy
 se data from both the US and UK. In particular\, we find that 47% of curre
 nt US employment is at high risk of computerisation by 2030.\n\n_About the
  Speaker_\n\nMichael A Osborne (DPhil Oxon) is an expert in the developmen
 t of machine intelligence in sympathy with societal needs. His work on rob
 ust and scalable inference algorithms in Machine Learning has been success
 fully applied in diverse and challenging contexts\, from aiding the detect
 ion of planets in distant solar systems to enabling self-driving cars to d
 etermine when their maps may have changed due to roadworks. Dr Osborne als
 o has deep interests in the broader societal consequences of machine learn
 ing and robotics\, and has analysed how intelligent algorithms might soon 
 substitute for human workers.\n\nDr Osborne is an Associate Professor in M
 achine Learning\, a co-director of the Oxford Martin programme on Technolo
 gy and Employment\, an Official Fellow of Exeter College\, and a Faculty M
 ember of the Oxford-Man Institute for Quantitative Finance\, all at the Un
 iversity of Oxford.\n\nHe is co-author (with Carl Frey) of "The Future of 
 Employment: How\nsusceptible are jobs to computerisation?":http://www.oxfo
 rdmartin.ox.ac.uk/downloads/academic/The_Future_of_Employment.pdf
LOCATION:Room SG1\, Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cambridge
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