Only Humans Need Apply: Winners and Losers in the Age of Smart Machines
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| Rating | : | 4.27 (626 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0062438611 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-09-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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It’s not enough to read this book; we need to act on it, now! (John Hagel, Chairman of the Deloitte Center for the Edge)The winners in the analytics revolution won’t simply replace human decision-making, they will augment it. Smart machines are going to change our work and our lives, and the sooner we begin to augment their capabilities, the more successful our economy will be. It is a powerful call to action and provides a roadmap that we ignore at our peril. (Manoj Saxena, Former General Manager, IBM Watson) . A fine call to action in the face of uncertainty. (Financial Times)The world the authors describe may be unsettling, but it is a world that we would all recognize and will likely live to see. (Wall Street Journal)This badly needed and well-researched book makes a con
Thomas H. Davenport is the President’s Distinguished Professor in Management and Information Technology at Babson College, the cofounder of the International Institute for Analytics, a fellow of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy, and a senior advisor to Deloitte Analytics. She is the coauthor of Standing on the Sun: How the Explosion of Capitalism Abroad Will Change Business Everywhere.. He teaches analytics and b
Anthony F. Branda said The Shift to the Augmentation Mindset! How To Save Your Career, Retool your skill sets and focus on the best places to add value. Did Steve Jobs and Alan Turing Read Davenport and Kirby’s book? They sure behaved as if they understood the principles in “Only Human’s Need Apply” as they practiced “Augmentation.”Tom Davenport’s book presents an outstanding, compelling, yet frightening case for everyone to pay more attention to automation and the impact it has on our own jobs. This book is a must read for every one and yes I mean everyone in the workforce in a. Tom Redman said This is a terrific book, perhaps Davenport’s best and most important. This is a terrific book, perhaps Davenport’s best and most important. For this review, I’m picking out three things I especially like. First, is the notion of how AI penetrates business. Its proponents have been making extravagant claims about its potential for a good long while, and it is easy to be dismissive. But Davenport and Kirby offer a solid rationale and “means of diffusion” through which it can happen, and some solid advise on how manag. Identify your personal approach to dealing w technological change D Ray If you're a techie, you probably already know this. Otherwise, this is a valuable and interesting review of areas of the economy/job market most likely to be affected (most are already affected) by constantly improving technology, the elephant in the room in the usual discussions of detrimental globalization. For me, the first few chapters conveyed the message that there are specific things individuals can do to enhance their own ability to cope with technological chang
The choice is ours.. Today, Era Two of automation continues to wash across the entire services-based economy that has replaced jobs in agriculture and manufacturing. Era Three, and the rise of AI, is dawning. The key is augmentation, utilizing technology to help humans work better, smarter, and faster. Instead of viewing these machines as competitive interlopers, we can see them as partners and collaborators in creative problem solving as we move into the next era. Brilliant technologies can now decide, learn, predict, and even comprehend much faster and more accurately than the human brain, and their progress