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Breaking stereotypes: gaming skills offer value in business, says expert

In context: It's time for workplaces to recognize the value of gaming and the skills it cultivates, such as social interaction, creativity, teamwork, empathy, improved memory, and a sense of competition, according to lecturer Jesse Olsen. Other hobbies like sports nurture similar traits, but people who engage in sports are proud to fly their flags at work. Gamers should feel the same pride in their hobby.
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Company cuts costs by replacing 60-strong writing team with AI

"I contributed to a lot of the garbage that's filling the internet and destroying it"
A hot potato: CEOs, bosses, and the those who make the technology love to assure people that artificial intelligence isn't going to replace everyone's jobs; it will merely augment them – working alongside humans to make life easier. Yet we keep hearing stories like the one about a writer whose employer fired his 60-person team and replaced them with an AI.