robocolleague
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]robocolleague (plural robocolleagues)
- Robotic or AI systems designed to assist humans to work.
- [2013 March 2, “Robocolleague”, in The Economist, volume 406, number 8825, page 74:
- (title:) Robocolleague: Robots are getting more powerful. That need not be bad news for workers]
- 2019 January-June, Ajay Kr Singh, “Developments in artificial intelligence: a global perspective”, in Delhi Business Review, volume 20, number 1, page 11:
- With AI making an entrance in the cubicles at the workplace, some office workers are warming up to their robo-colleagues by giving them female names: back-end staff for ANZ bank in Bangalore call their robo-colleague Lakshmi, while Nippon Life Insurance Company in Japan addresses them as robomi-chan, or "pretty little robot".
- 2019 May 8, Mark Blunden, “Artificial intelligence will mean more jobs for humans, not fewer”, in Evening Standard, page 16:
- The nine-to-five routine could certainly be sweetened by a robocolleague to sweat your boring stuff. But will they get the teas in?
- 2023 March 22, Zachary Comeau, quoting Frances Karamouzis of Gartner Data & Analytics, “IT Leaders Should Prepare for Generative AI in the Enterprise”, in My Tech Decisions[1]:
- That is leading Gartner to predict that by 2026, 100 million workers will have what the firm calls a “robo-colleague,” a synthetic virtual assistant designed to help make users more productive and efficient.