Rise of the Robots: Is AI Coming For Your Job?

From Visual Capitalist.

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Barclays machine moniker misfire has Brits bristling

From ATM Marketplace –

“In an apparent attempt to ease customers' transition from staffed teller counters to machine-equipped "assisted service counters," a handful of Barclays branches in the U.K. have given first names to their self-service devices.

According to a report by the U.K.'s Daily Mail, the names were meant to help customers distinguish one machine that performs a particular set of transactions from another that performs a different set. For instance, you might see "Sally" about depositing a check, but visit "Mike" to arrange a direct debit.

However the effort has not gone down well with those who see the attempt to humanize machines as a patronizing brush-off by the bank.”

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Technology makes thousands of front- and back-office bank jobs extinct

From Computer Weekly

“Bank employee numbers are falling by the thousand, as modern IT automates previously manual processes.

This week Dutch bank ING announced almost 3,000 job cuts in its IT department, back office and callcentres.

The bank said it is moving to simplified IT systems and automation, at a cost of €200m for two years from 2015. It expects to save €270m per year from 2018. It is cutting 1,700 full-time employees and reducing the number of contractors it employs by 1,075.

The bank said the cuts came as the bank was modernising to meet customer demand. It said customers are banking “the way they want, when they want and in a consistent, reliable, clear and easy way".

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Real Time DevOps

From Deloitte CIO Journal

“IT organizations need to better respond to business needs with speed and agility. IT can likely improve the quality of its products and services by standardizing and automating environment, build, release, and configuration management—using tools like deployment managers, virtualization, continuous integration servers, and automated build verification testing. Popular in the agile world, DevOps capabilities are growing in many IT organizations with either waterfall or agile methodologies.”