The Changing work environment

The world around us is _________.

______________ have created new ways of doing things that most people could not even imagine in the past.

What gives machines and robots the ability to think and act more like humans?

Robots with AI have been quite common in factories and warehouses for many years.

• True

• False

What are robots ndemonstrating the ability to do? highly professional tasks such as analysing data, generating reports and even diagnosing patients.

• analysing data

• fixing leaking pipes

• generating reports

• building skyscrapers

A study by the McKinsey Global Institute predicted that, by 2025, robots could create 40 million and 75 million jobs worldwide.

• True

• False

What won the American TV quiz show Jeopardy in 2011?

When companies move their operations to nations where labour is cheaper to help them compete with the cheaper products of international competitors.

Advances in __________ has allowed for the outsourcing of more technical jobs such as those in information technology.

Which of the following statements is true?

• Those who do not invest time and effort in gaining

  qualifications and skills will be far less likely to fill

  the jobs that are created by the changes AI brings.

• Those who invest time and effort in gaining

  qualifications and skills will be far more likely to fill

  the jobs that are created by the changes AI brings.