Social entrepreneur Nick Gerritsen caused a small quake in New Zealand recently when his creation SAM, the world’s first ever AI politician, took to chatting with New Zealand’s constituents with facts and opinions on public policy. SAM is programmed to become more capable with each conversation she participates in, and it will be interesting to see her stance on employment regulations and issues, with their implications on New Zealand’s corporate HR leaders in the near future
The story which was initially run by The Sun, with pictures of BBC employees taking a nap during night shifts was handled rather quite well by the later. Along with Tweets from BBC Producer Robert Coxwell sleeping on the floor, BBC Press Office posted a poll that showed audience trust rating for every channel, with the Beeb at 57% & the Su
Following a crucial ruling on Monday at the District Court of Columbia, the military shall now be legally obliged to accept transgender applications for its positions. Acknowledging their constitutional rights of gender equality, Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly opened the doors for transgender people which the Trump administration had shut through its policies.
Singapore - The United Overseas Bank introduced Amy & Eve, it's software bots that have reportedly cut the data processing time to half, in just three weeks. The tasks were otherwise labeled “mundane” and repetitive by human standards. Following the spree of positive news, UOB will, in the coming months be taking more robots onboard.<
Human Rights activists are calling to shut-down unacceptable virginity tests that are performed on Indonesian women military recruits. While the military sources claim, that such tests were already put a full-stop to three-years ago, sources tell a different story. Subjects, who are supposedly failed to clear the test, admitted going through feelings of embarrassment an
The ruling which has irked the company to turn to the Supreme Court in Britain has advised Uber to grant the rights of paid holidays and minimum wages to the drivers. Contrary to its inclination, statements from the company reflected that this would mean categorizing the drivers as employees of the company. Would the unicorn twist its own policies, that is if its’ strong-armed to?
The advertising standard authority in the UK has admitted to receiving complaints against amazon’s delayed delivery of products. The e-commerce store that pitches its flagship prime membership for premium benefits, has upset customers who are openly criticizing Amazon for failing to live up to its own claims. Consumer rights groups are rooting for a full refund, following non-delivery of articles by the promised date.
Google will step in and hire 10,000 moderators just to keep an eye out for offensive content on Youtube. The latter, which was under fire for allowing the abusive material to float online, stated that quality-specialists had helped review over 2 million videos since June. An added workforce would only fasten the process to train the company’s machine learning program detect contentious material sooner, in future.
The Government in Ukraine has ordered for the remuneration of the heads of ministry directorates to be increased. As part of new reforms, the respective heads will be able to draw Hr 9,570 on top of a charge for important work amounting to Hr 53,000.
Andy Rubin, who earlier led Google’s Android Division & now heads the tech-venture Essential, is in the news supposedly for asking a temporary leave of absence. The reason, as per company sources relates to his personal life. Sceptics, however, were quick to point out that a Googler who worked under Andy had reported him to his ex-employer for miscond
The Facebook founder, who announced in March that he and wife Priscilla were expecting a second child, has recently admitted to the need for a paternity leave of absence. Mark went on to add that following the birth of his second girl child, he would make use of the leaves in parts option available on Facebook.
Tim Cook, while speaking at China’s World Internet Conference (WIC), called for technologies which are open and humanized with human values and still offer the refuge of privacy and safety. Specifically talking about AI, he said “I don’t worry about machines thinking like humans. I worry about people thinking like machines”(Sic)
Job-security shouldn’t be an issue for a skilled-workforce as long as it keeps itself abreast with the latest demand. This is the mantra being embraced by the United Overseas Bank (UOB) who is looking forward to imparting a new set of expertise to 900 personnel. The group shall be subject to training in various disciplines of the finance industr
The top six male presenters at BBC have all agreed to lesser salaries, following Carrie Grace’s controversial resignation from BBC China. The list which includes personalities like Nick Robinson, Jeremy Vine, & John Humphrys, is now rumoured to be paid almost half of what they received earlier. Carrie, who left the media conglomerate earlier this year referred to the pay-policy as “secretive and illegal”.
We might be fifteen years within touching distance of making our brains more efficient with a chip, this according to Bryan Johnson, the CEO of Kernel. Successfully selling his previous venture for $800 million while dealing with depression, Bryan believes this would make possible for humans to battle brain-conditions like Alzeihmers’ & drug-addiction. Signs in neuro-prosthesis suggest injectable processors are closer to reality than brain-chips however.
While new disruptions have been set in motion by the electric car manufacturer, it continues to face one lawsuit after another. Not in the distant past, a gay-employee filed a case accusing Tesla of firing him on discriminatory grounds. In yet another case, another employee is taking the company to court, as he faced prolonged harassment, subsequent to which he was fired for “poor performance”.
McKinsey Global Institute, in its recent report covering 46 nations and 800 occupations, stated- machine operators, back-office employees, and fast-food workers up to the margin of 800 million workers may lose their jobs to automation by 2030. What remains to be seen is how the professions evolve on skills and talent to keep up with the latest advancements.
Although the app is being vehemently used by people to upload photos, its other side allows job-seekers to have an inside-peek into a company’s culture & policies. The platform is dawning a LinkedIn-like impression wherein the employers also get to source talented profiles & avoid potential misfits. Global corporations already leveraging this social network include the Bechtel, Mckesson & Schneider Electric.
"Robin Leopold was named the new head of human resources on Thursday by JP Morgan Chase & Co which sets the stage for her as the fourth women on the operating committee when she officially takes over the reins in February. She joined JP Morgan in 2010 and has spent 20 years at Citigroup in various human resources roles. The earlier incumbent John Donnelly is scheduled to hold the post of Vice Chairman and Senior Advisor to the CEO Jamie Dimon. He will look after the matters of executive succession, recruitment and coaching with Dimon whom he has already worked for 30 years. "
Nissan might give drivers a run for their livelihood as it test-drove its Infiniti Q50 model last month. With that, it put to test its autonomous drive technology, which on the contrary promises a skilled workforce. Tetsuya Iijima says "We have tried to attain with this vehicle .... comfortable driving". To the car-manufacturers pleasure, it passed with flying colors as the vehicle drove approximately 12 miles without human intervention. This follows a series of previous tests performed in 2013, 2015 & 2016.
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