Amelia is after your job

Meet Amelia, the computer who's after your job.

A new artificially intelligent computer system called "Amelia" that can read and understand text, follow processes, solve problems and learn from experience could replace humans in a wide range of low-level jobs.

Amelia was built to answer the question: Can machines think? In February 2011 an artificially intelligent computer system called IBM Watson beat the two all-time greatest Jeopardy! champions at their own game.

Thanks to its ability to apply advanced natural language processing, information retrieval, knowledge representation, automated reasoning, and machine learning technologies, Watson consistently outperformed its human opponents on the American quiz show Jeopardy!

In 2012, Google used 16000 computer processors to build a simulated brain that could correctly identify cats in YouTube videos.

Now there's Amelia, named after US aviator and pioneer Amelia Earhart.

She can shoulder the burden of often tedious and laborious tasks, allowing human co-workers to take on more creative roles, the designers say.