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16 July 2017
An American association for county and municipal employees warned that goats could take people’s jobs after an American university rented 20 goats to brush and clear weeds, The Washington Post reported earlier this month.
According to the newspaper’s report, a Michigan subdivision of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees said Western Michigan University’s move to hire goats had “filed a grievance contending that the work the goats are doing in a wooded lot is taking away jobs from laid-off union workers.”
In the Arab world, many employees fear the rise of robotic technologies. Dubai police announced last May what it called the world’s first operational robot policeman, which patrolled streets and used facial recognition software to identify and catch offenders.
Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) had last year introduced an artificial intelligence chat service called Rammas Chat that answer customers’ queries in Arabic and English.
The Emirate’s health authority had also inaugurated its first robot pharmacy in January.
Google technology expert Ray Kurzweil predicted that computers will outsmart humans by 2029, according to in an interview with the Guardian newspaper in 2014.
An American association for county and municipal employees warned that goats could take people’s jobs after an American university rented 20 goats to brush and clear weeds, The Washington Post reported earlier this month.
According to the newspaper’s report, a Michigan subdivision of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees said Western Michigan University’s move to hire goats had “filed a grievance contending that the work the goats are doing in a wooded lot is taking away jobs from laid-off union workers.”
In the Arab world, many employees fear the rise of robotic technologies. Dubai police announced last May what it called the world’s first operational robot policeman, which patrolled streets and used facial recognition software to identify and catch offenders.
Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) had last year introduced an artificial intelligence chat service called Rammas Chat that answer customers’ queries in Arabic and English.
The Emirate’s health authority had also inaugurated its first robot pharmacy in January.
Google technology expert Ray Kurzweil predicted that computers will outsmart humans by 2029, according to in an interview with the Guardian newspaper in 2014.
