Impact of Technological Changes on Occupations

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Table of Contents
Introduction........................................................................................................................2
Demonstration of the changes for the following occupations over the last 40 years........3
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Hotel Manager................................................................................................................6
Conclusion.........................................................................................................................7
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Introduction
In today's context, there possess a series of major technological developments that
have enabled intelligent machines to carry out greater breadth and depth of work than
ever before. Robotic systems and Artificial intelligence (AI) are distracting various fields
negatively as well as positively. AI refers to a computer technique and a collection of
programming that tries to simulate the aspects of learning and human-level perception.
It consists of various techniques such as expert systems, deep learning, and machine
learning, natural and speech-language processing, neural networks, and visual
perception. Whereas robots are determined to be the programmable machines that are
controlled by human operators and carry out physical processes.
It can be seen that in 40 to 50 years, AI and robotic systems will create a huge impact
on the societal level as it will increase the number of unemployed people. Employment
models, social welfare, government, education, businesses, and markets will be greatly
impacted due to the implementation of AI and robotic systems. The humans will be
replaced by smart robots who will perform complex assembling operations, move and
find objects like tools or parts, and safely navigate the space (Russell, Dewey and
Tegmark, 2015). On the other hand, AI could be beneficial in designing and performing
social programs, improving the services to the citizens, and removing bureaucracy. A
properly trained AI system will understand the request of the consumers in natural
language.
In the future, society will experience increased and steady improvement, such as the
implementation of complex and large algorithms and neural networks. These systems
will improve consistently with the availability of training data. Such systems can improve
the cost of available services and goods, quality and speed, by replacing a huge
number of workers. As such technologies become more widespread, capable, and
cheaper, there will be an increased application in an economy. In 40 to 50 years, the AI
and robotic systems will dramatically extend the scale and scope of cybersecurity
professionals and enable them to find threats. This clearly states that AI possesses
great potential in improving things such as security, poverty, education, and healthcare.
It will have a positive impact on the culture, business, and society based on the size of
the internet itself. For industrial robots, the global market has been estimated by $40
billion in 2018 and is predicted to grow by $80 billion in the next 40-50 years (Lu et al.,
2018).
However, it has been predicted that networked artificial intelligence will intimidate not
only human capabilities, agency, and autonomy but also strengthen human efficiency.
These systems will help in executing tasks such as language translation, speech
recognition, learning, reasoning, visual acuity, and complex decision-making. Moreover,
AI will help in empowering the human factor to perform better in difficult and complex
situations that need creative thinking and judgment. The evolution of AI will result in a
new era of well-being, creativeness, and prosperity, where humans will not be needed
to perform limited value and routine jobs.