Computationally Thinking

Mark Crowley (he/him)

Assoc. Professor in AI at the Univ. of Waterloo

My Thoughts on AI/ML, Consciousness, Technology, Science, and Society
Opinions are my own, and no one else’s.

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One of the reasons I think it is so important for the everyone person to keep up to date which the advance of science and technology is that is the only way they can purposely prepare for the future. What jobs will be available in the future, what jobs will be replaced by machines? In particular, advances in computer technology and artificial intelligence are beginning to threaten jobs that people often think are inherently human. That is the focus of the #MachinesWantYourJob posts.

So what about job recruiters themselves? Surely that is a job that couldn’t be automated. Well, not quite yet, but this article outlines a new tool gaining popularity that does a lot k of the initial leg work in evaluating candidates for programming jobs.

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