The book deals with an interesting topic and an emergent future that might threaten jobs that humans look forward to because smart machines are coming. Think Boston Dynamics and several Japanese companies; why there's even some Indian companies looking for a piece of the pie that will create 'thinking' machines that can replace human beings at several tasks in a variety of industrial scenarios. And if you think labour is cheap in Asia, remember that industries in Asia are fast robotizing. What t...

Ever since John Maynard Keynes published his works 100 years ago following the great depression, people have been concerned about job losses due to automation. Davenport describes the current state of automation and data science in context with human employability. This book is written for those impacted and managers who lead the change. It provides insights for parents who help their kids to make better choices for their education and for educators telling them what skills are important to teac...

This book allowed me to see artificial intelligence in the workplace in a more favorable light. They argue that smart machines can augment the value that humans bring to the workplace. Freeing them from mundane repetitive tasks that can be a drag on workplace morale. The authors do lay out how to best prepare for the ever advancing technology that is AI. The premise is well fleshed out. I did find some areas a little dry. This probably speaks to my non-technical background. Industry, government,...

Book has way too many fillers. A lot of very short anecdotes/examples that don't do much to aid your understanding - you'll forget about them soon after reading.Read introduction + chapter summaries and you'll get 90% of the info.

Narrative is that there will always be human augmation that will be needed , however the job loses because of automation is real

Explain the positive sides of the technology. Also, widens my knowledge about uncertainty and risk of losing jobs to technology.

This is an odd sort of book. It starts by perhaps overstating the job loss catastrophe that is about to hit us all – I’m really not sure how bad this will be, as I’ve read just about every possible scenario told in detail from ‘experts’ of all shades. The options lie on a spectrum that runs from there will be no jobs for humans in the future, to there will be too few humans to do all of the jobs of the future. And the types of jobs of the future also run on a spectrum that starts at jobs being s...

If you are a student at Babson College, or an executive concerned about automation, then this book is for you. It is written by two Boston business professors to explain to their students and consulting clients how to best upgrade their skills to benefit from automation. It is an eminently practical volume for MBAs or large corporation knowledge workers.Authors are completely right on one essential point: augmentation, not automation, is inevitable because it creates the most profit and scales t...

На відміну від багатьох футуристичних книжок, у цій можна знайти кілька вагомих стратегій співпраці людини і розумної технології.

1/5Booooo. This book took me nearly two years to read because of how fucking awful it is. Super boring. I was expecting them to tell me at the end that the book was written by a robot to justify how meandering and pointless it was, but it turns out they're just lousy writers. Over 250 pages of exposition that could have been summed up in a short article or bulleted list.

This is a book with a wide scope -- the rise of cognitive computing and artificial intelligence, the impact on blue-collar and educated 'knowledge' workers, the larger themes of automation and it's impact on society, how to augment human strength's in a work of increased productivity.Really well-written, often humorous and witty, and articulates arguments that are both inspiring and I believe to be insightful about the future. It's optimism is a great compliment to most of the existing literatur...

1. This was really interesting and thought-provoking. Could have been just an article though. Once they said what they needed to say I feel like they kept interviewing people to make the same point.2. The mind-blowing part is that low skill jobs are not necessarily the ones first threatened by automation. High-skilled jobs like radiologists are also becoming obsolete. Anything that can be reduced to machine-understandable rules. 3. They are very proud of themselves with their “step up,” “step in...

Really enjoyed this, as I'm learning new programming languages lately to keep an edge. 4.0/5

The central points that 'Only Humans Need Apply' advocates are important: That workplaces should combine sophisticated machines and humans in partnership of mutual augmentation; that knowledge workers should embrace and employers should pursue this augmentation for competitive reasons; and that this human/machine augmentation is something societies should encourage and enable.However, I think this could have been accomplished in a 20 to 30 page article as opposed to a 250 page book.

It's easy to be a pessimist when it comes to robots taking over our jobs. To say that there is a threat to workforces around the world from automation, robotics, AI, etc., is an understatement. Smart people seem to be converging on the idea that now, more than ever before, humanity's ability to find meaningful and economically rewarding work is under grave threat. Of course, often, smart people are wrong. We've been worried about machines taking our jobs for at least the last 200 years. At ever

This book deals with the concern of losing jobs because of artificial intelligence. They discuss the three eras of machines replacing humans:• First, machines relived humans of work that was manually exhausting and mentally enervating.• The second era of automation followed workers to the higher ground they’d headed for when machines took the grunt work. For the most part, this wasn’t the realm of the dirty and dangerous anymore. It was the domain of the dull.• And this brings us to Era Three, w...

This has been an excellent roadmap for my personal career, and has given me lenses to consider how other peers around me can consider their contributions of value around us!The main thrust is that automation is ultimately limiting, because it is static. Humans are dynamic, and are able to respond to the changing states of the world. Of course, because there are many tasks that are routine--and many computations that computers are highly qualified to perform--the recommended relationship of human...

Would have been better as a magazine article, but contains a thorough and interesting analysis of the ongoing impact of smart machines. Sober but not dystopian.

This book, is an attempt to come to an understanding of a deep and fundamental change, in the nature of industry. Will we compete, more and more, with the machines, that perhaps will some day replace us? Or will they serve along side us, augmenting our abilities? This is at this point, unclear. The author describes his thoughts on the later, or second of these.

TAKE ACTION, OR BE SWEPT ASIDE BY AUTOMATIONONLY HUMANS NEED APPLY is a complicated book--and even a little bit scary--so plan on giving it some time. First of all, note that this book is not just a theoretical book exploring some things that might happen in the future. Rather, the author explores what is already happening around the world as automation displaces many workers. Fortunately for the reader, the author provides specific action plans that you can take to protect your job. I admit I w...