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The Bigger Picture on Amazon: Humans as “Amabots"

The role of human labor is to do the work machines haven’t yet learned, so systems that make machines learn faster speed up the pace through which machines take human jobs. This is why machine learning is so critical to understanding the future ‘de-humanization’ of work. Until now, the communications and decision making aspects of most knowledge work has simply proven too demanding for machines. But that is rapidly changing.