"Meanwhile, algorithms are writing most corporate reports [What? what kind of reports are we talking about? At first I pictured those glossy end-of-year things for analysts, but maybe not, anyway - citation needed!] analyzing intelligence data for the NSA and CIA, [Analyzing? Or just winnowing hopefully significant items from oceans of chaff for real analysts to look at?] reading mammograms [OK, valid hit], grading tests [then why are teachers and professors always still bitching about the time they spend grading?] , and sniffing out plagiarism [valid, but only a minor adjunct to a professor's grading life]. Computers fly planes—Nicholas Carr points out that the average airline pilot is now at the helm of an airplane for about three minutes per flight [False impression, there has to be an awake and alert trained pilot at "the helm" 100% of the time regardless of the autopilot]—and they compose music [BAD music that nobody but a few academics ever listen to and that certainly does not sell] and pick which pop songs should be recorded based on which chord progressions and riffs were hits in the past [? that would explain a lot about current pop...]. Computers pursue drug development—a robot in the UK named Eve may have just found a new compound to treat malaria [yes there are interesting machines that try thousands of molecules to find ones that might work, but that in no way displaces any human bodies; these are NEW discoveries that wouldn't be made otherwise]—and fill pharmacy vials [as pick-and-pack machinery has been doing for decades]...
This article is a mess.