Gigaom AI Minute – March 27

Transcript

At Gigaom.com/quiz, there is a ten question test that scores how likely any given job is to be replaced by automation, be it by a computer or a robot. I'm going to spend ten AI Minutes going through the questions one at a time, and why they're on the test.

Question #7: Does your job require emotional connections to people, or does it require charisma?

Now, you might score this a 0, which is less likely to be automated, if you answer yes, it requires emotional connection and/or charisma. And here would be some examples: a comedian, a child psychologist, or a mayor all have to connect to people. Then you might say, no, that would be a 10, something more likely to be automated, and that might be a data entry person, or a construction worker. And then there are ones in the middle, where you require some amount of emotional connection, such as an attorney, or a salesperson.

This is a good indicator of how likely something is to be automated because we're not really good at building machines that have charisma, or that are good at making emotional connections to people... yet.