He advises that workers seek jobs that are in demand and have to be completed by a person, rather than a machine.

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Passengers must buy their tickets in advance, or from a machine, rather than from the driver as in most London buses.

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The Supreme Court did uphold a patent on a software-controlled rubber-curing machine in 1981, but its ruling emphasized that this was because the patent covered a physical machine that happened to have a software component, rather than claiming a software technique by itself.

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Despite its semantic engine and machine learning, Beepl was built to be social and conversational rather than simply a repository of answers.

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Though still hooked up to a machine, she acted like any typical four-year old, rather than the sickly, constantly exhausted child she was until very recently.

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Mr Schmitt says it should be possible for a robot builder to specify what a servo needs to do, rather than how it needs to be made, and send that information to a 3D printer, and for the machine's software to know how to produce it at a low cost.

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Rather they are a nice incremental income flow that is turning out to be larger than he expected when he acquired the machine some seventeen months ago.

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