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摘要

"Manager wanted. Humans need not apply." Is thata Gumtree advert from the near future of your industry? We stand, apparently, on the brink of a robotic world. As Uber shreds up taxi industries around the world, one imagines it won't be long before another company - well, Google - launches a wave of driverless taxis, ferrying passengers around London or San Francisco with nary an awkward chat about politics. And surely the world's most systematic retailer - Amazon - will embrace robotic shelf pickers at the first chance? Even the most human-seeming professions aren't immune. A Chicago company called Narrative Science is training computers to write news stories. Their current speciality is conjuringup match reports for junior baseball games from scorecards. This can't end well... But surely managing people isn't a job that can be handed over to our new robot overlords? There's a key word there, "people". Yours is an industry based on how humans interact and improve, right? Well, perhaps.