Chipmakers face a looming crisis in labour
A human worker shortage may turn out to be the biggest obstacle to the AI industry.
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Until now, the dominant belief has been that increasing chip manufacturing capacity was simply a matter of money.
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June Yoon
When will artificial intelligence (AI) start to replace human workers in a more significant way? This is a question that has become the subject of much speculation amid the AI boom.
But long before we need to worry about that happening, a human worker shortage may turn out to be the biggest obstacle to the AI industry.

