It’s Not Just Blue-Collar Jobs – Insurance Claim Adjusters Replaced By “IBM Watson Explorer”
by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com,
ZeroHedge.com
Jan 4, 2017
Manufacturing jobs have already been decimated by robots. White collar workers are next in line.
Fukoku Mutual Life Insurance in Japan is about to replace claim adjusters with a software robot from IBM.
Most of the attention around automation focuses on how factory robots and self-driving cars may fundamentally change our workforce, potentially eliminating millions of jobs. But AI that can handle knowledge-based, white-collar work are also becoming increasingly competent.
One Japanese insurance company, Fukoku Mutual Life Insurance, is reportedly replacing 34 human insurance claim workers with “IBM Watson Explorer,” starting by January 2017.
The AI will scan hospital records and other documents to determine insurance payouts, according to a company press release, factoring injuries, patient medical histories, and procedures administered. Automation of these research and data gathering tasks will help the remaining human workers process the final payout faster, the release says.
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