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Elon Musk’s Government Overhaul: Tech-Driven Disruption or Reckless Experiment?

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Ridgewood NJ, billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk is bringing his signature “move fast and break things” leadership style to Washington, spearheading a dramatic overhaul of the federal government. At the helm of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)—a task force focused on slashing federal spending and modernizing outdated systems—Musk and his allies are leveraging artificial intelligence (AI), automation, and unconventional hires to reshape government operations.

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How AI is Revolutionizing the Online Casino Experience

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The online casino world is on the cusp of a new era driven by advanced artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning. These groundbreaking technologies are taking the player experience to unprecedented heights by revolutionizing how online casinos operate and interact with customers behind the scenes.

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Top Professions That Сan Disappear In The Next 10 Years

According to futurologists, many of our current professions may soon become extinct. Even if it is challenging to foresee which industries would be displaced by automation and neural networks, some tendencies are already evident and apparent. Here are the top 10 jobs that are almost certain to disappear by 2030.

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NJBIA President Calls Murphy’s Minimum Wage Law Irresponsible

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New Jersey Business and Industry Association President and CEO Michele N. Siekerka issued the following statement regarding the $15 Minimum Wage law signed by Governor Murphy today.

“After calling for a responsible, slow and predictive pathway to increasing the minimum wage, we are disappointed that our policymakers have put into place a plan that will result in a 35 percent cost increase to New Jersey’s small businesses, when including the increased wage and payroll taxes, within just 11 months.

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Bergen County Becomes the first County in the State of New Jersey to adopt a $15 minimum wage

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November 24,2017
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Hackensack NJ, Bergen County Executive Jim Tedesco , “This afternoon I was joined by my colleagues on the Bergen County Board of Chosen Freeholders, along with representatives from USUW 755, USUW 655, and the Executive Director of New Jersey Working Families Analilia Mejia, to announce and sign Executive Order No. 2017-01, officially making Bergen County the first county in the state of New Jersey to adopt a $15 minimum wage for its full time county workers.

Good people are essential to good government, and good managers understand that their employees need to be valued. County employees who put in 40 hours or more every week, in service to their friends and neighbors throughout Bergen County, deserve and have earned a $15 minimum wage. It is important to me that we do this for our workers in time for holidays.”

While the reality is most employers cannot simply raise prices to cover the higher minimum wage, particularly in the competitive services sector. … But a preponderance of evidence has shown that there are no positive effects on employment of low-skilled workers that offset the negative effects from an increase in the minimum wage.

Look for more automation , layoffs , business closings ,less full time work and even less opportunities for starter jobs in Bergen county.

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Millennials’ hatred of ‘dealing with people’ is a major threat to fast-food workers

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Hayley Peterson

Many millennials hate interacting with people, according to a new survey.

Nearly a third of people 18 to 24 prefer ordering from the drive-thru at restaurants because “they don’t feel like dealing with people,” according to a study by Ohio-based Frisch’s Restaurants, which owns and franchises 120 Big Boy Restaurants.

That’s bad news for fast-food employees.

It gives restaurant chains an added incentive to invest in automation technology, such as digital tablets that allow customers to buy food without human interaction.

Many restaurant chains, such as McDonald’s and Panera Bread, are already heavily invested in automation. Both have rolled out digital tablets at restaurants nationwide.

The technology has been praised for helping to improve customer-service speed and accuracy.But it also threatens to eventually replace human workers — especially as labor costs rise, according to analysts and labor activists.

https://www.businessinsider.com/millennials-hate-interacting-with-people-2016-8

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This robot-powered burger joint could put fast food workers out of a job

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Melia Robinson

Jun. 30, 2016, 4:50 PM

A robot-powered burger joint is coming to San Francisco.

In 2012, secretive robotics startup Momentum Machines debuted a machine that could crank out 400 made-to-order hamburgers in an hour. It’s fully autonomous, meaning the robot can slice toppings, grill a patty, and assemble and bag the burger without any help from humans. The internet flipped out.

Years of relative silence ensued, but in January, Hoodline’s Brittany Hopkins learned that the San Francisco-based startup had applied for a building permit to convert a ground-floor retail space in the SoMa neighborhood into a restaurant.

Now it looks like the restaurant is actually happening. A job posting on Craigslist from early June gives us our first glimpse into how the company’s future flagship, presumably opening so on, might work.

https://www.techinsider.io/momentum-machines-is-hiring-2016-6

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Automation Makes Us Dumb

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Automation Makes Us Dumb

Human intelligence is withering as computers do more, but there’s a solution.

By NICHOLAS CARR
Nov. 21, 2014 12:02 p.m. ET

Artificial intelligence has arrived. Today’s computers are discerning and sharp. They can sense the environment, untangle knotty problems, make subtle judgments and learn from experience. They don’t think the way we think—they’re still as mindless as toothpicks—but they can replicate many of our most prized intellectual talents. Dazzled by our brilliant new machines, we’ve been rushing to hand them all sorts of sophisticated jobs that we used to do ourselves.

But our growing reliance on computer automation may be exacting a high price. Worrisome evidence suggests that our own intelligence is withering as we become more dependent on the artificial variety. Rather than lifting us up, smart software seems to be dumbing us down.

It has been a slow process. The first wave of automation rolled through U.S. industry after World War II, when manufacturers began installing electronically controlled equipment in their plants. The new machines made factories more efficient and companies more profitable. They were also heralded as emancipators. By relieving factory hands of routine chores, they would do more than boost productivity. They would elevate laborers, giving them more invigorating jobs and more valuable talents. The new technology would be ennobling.

Then, in the 1950s, a Harvard Business School professor named James Bright went into the field to study automation’s actual effects on a variety of industries, from heavy manufacturing to oil refining to bread baking. Factory conditions, he discovered, were anything but uplifting. More often than not, the new machines were leaving workers with drabber, less demanding jobs. An automated milling machine, for example, didn’t transform the metalworker into a more creative artisan; it turned him into a pusher of buttons.

https://online.wsj.com/articles/automation-makes-us-dumb-1416589342