Carcass wrote:
Instead of automating repetitive tasks, technology today is climbing the (i)____ ladder, using artificial intelligence and brute processing power to automate, however (ii) ____, the functions of travel agents, secretaries, tax preparers, even teachers who once thought their sheepskins were a bulwark against this sort of thing. With this digital transformation, the last repository of jobs in services is (iii) ____ and we face a problem.
Blank (i) |
Blank (ii) |
Blank (iii) |
cognitive |
marvelously |
shrinking |
metaphysical |
imperfectly |
burgeoning |
physiological |
spontaneously |
inundated |
Kudos for the right answer and explanation
If technology is climbing the ladder and able to perform various tasks, then surely it is moving ahead in
cognitive department.
Next, notice a shift - "however" so either imperfectly or spontaneously fits. If teachers and others thought they were protected from automation, but now even their jobs can be performed by the AI. So, the second blank has to be
imperfectly.
The third blank is now easy, because the jobs are only going to be
shrinking if the AI soon to replace humans in these new sectors.