#459 Will a Robot Take Your Job? with Tom Taulli, Author of The Robotic Process Automation Handbook
Today we’re talking to Tom Taulli, Author of the books Artificial Intelligence Basics and The Robotic Process Automation Handbook; and we discuss what will happen when jobs are automated away at massive scale, and why many advanced professions may not be safe from automation.
All of this right here, right now, on the ModernCTO Podcast!
Check out Tom Taulli's books Artificial Intelligence Basics and The Robotic Process Automation Handbook today!
About Tom Taulli:
I’ve been in the tech industry for some time. While in the eighth grade, my dad bought me a computer and just left it on my desk. So I started to figure it out. And yes, I became obsessed with this machine. Then when I was a freshman in high school, I started to code and sold some of my programs to magazines (in the early 1980s, these publications had listings of code for readers to type in!) From all this, I knew I wanted to be a part of the tech world.
Although, it was not until college that I started my first business. You see, I was fairly bad at taking exams. What to do? Well, I created software for exam preparation. I would sell this to a national provider of bar exam preparation. The business would then go on to grow, as we added more and more exams.
But the biggest venture of mine was launched in 1997. It was Hypermart.net. Think of it as kind of a first-generation Shopify. From the start, the growth was strong and we would sell the company to InfoSpace.com.
In the meantime, I have always been writing, such as for Forbes.com, Bloomberg.com, Kiplinger and BusinessWeek. I have also written a variety of books, mostly on tech and finance. My latest include Artificial Intelligence Basics: A Non-Technical Introduction and The Robotic Process Automation Handbook: A Guide to Implementing RPA Systems.
About Artificial Intelligence Basics:
Artificial intelligence touches nearly every part of your day. While you may initially assume that technology such as smart speakers and digital assistants are the extent of it, AI has in fact rapidly become a general-purpose technology, reverberating across industries including transportation, healthcare, financial services, and many more. In our modern era, an understanding of AI and its possibilities for your organization is essential for growth and success.
Artificial Intelligence Basics has arrived to equip you with a fundamental, timely grasp of AI and its impact. Author Tom Taulli provides an engaging, non-technical introduction to important concepts such as machine learning, deep learning, natural language processing (NLP), robotics, and more. In addition to guiding you through real-world case studies and practical implementation steps, Taulli uses his expertise to expand on the bigger questions that surround AI. These include societal trends, ethics, and future impact AI will have on world governments, company structures, and daily life.
Google, Amazon, Facebook, and similar tech giants are far from the only organizations on which artificial intelligence has had―and will continue to have―an incredibly significant result. AI is the present and the future of your business as well as your home life. Strengthening your prowess on the subject will prove invaluable to your preparation for the future of tech, and Artificial Intelligence Basics is the indispensable guide that you’ve been seeking.