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#WorldChocolateDay
Hershey reveals part of its manufacturing process in its Create Your Own Candy Bar interactive display
at Hershey Chocolate World for any of their 3 million annual guests to use. Visitors
can create a custom candy bar by selecting their favorite type of chocolate (white,
dark or milk) and choices of toppings and even design their own packaging. Guests
can watch the entire process of their chocolate bar’s production from the automated
picking of the chocolate bar type from a dis
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Jul 7th 2017
PwC Confirms AI to Strengthen World Economy
From a $9.1tn increase in consumption to $6.6tn in new
profits, Price Waterhouse Coopers estimates that by 2030, $15tn
will be added to the global economy through advances in artificial intelligence.
In their research, PwC concluded North American consumers and
industries were more accepting of AI than other geographic areas. The US is
poised to initially see more gains from AI due to the GDP from domestic
manufacturing. China will eventually surpass the growth seen in the US with a
p
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Jul 5th 2017
Will Robots Get Their Own Independence Day?
According to the UK’s Independent,
the next century will be defined by how humans decide to manage robots, AI and
machine learning. In fact, the European Parliament has already taken steps to
create regulations around the use of artificial intelligence and robots, even
coining the term “electronic personhood” in their draft of rights and
responsibilities of highly functional AI.
Think of robots seen as people the way the judicial system
sees and treats corporations as people who can
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Jun 30th 2017
Top 10 Skills for Success in the Fourth Industrial Revolution
According to the World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs report, there are ten skills that will dictate how
successful you are amid the Fourth Industrial Revolution. See if you agree in the chart below and leave
your thoughts about which skills should be topping the list and why in the comment box.
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Jun 28th 2017
Double Your Income with Robotics
In Eagle Grove, Iowa, Prestage Foods will open a new pork processing
plant that uses advanced robotics. The development agreement between Wright
County and Prestage required that the company create at least 922 jobs with the
new plant. The average annual income in Wright County is $25,964 while the
average annual wages at the plant are projected to be around $47,000.
“There’s going to be a number of high-tech machines involved in our
process, including robotics with vision,”Jere Null,
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Jun 26th 2017