Robots taking our jobs, cont’d: Burger-flippers & lawyers

The two latest bits of news on the “robots are taking all the jobs” beat:

The national burger joint Wendy’s says it will replace some workers with self-service kiosks at 6,000 of its eateries.

A national law firm has “hired” an artificial-intelligence thingamajig from IBM to help with its bankruptcy practice, reports Futurism. The AI, called Ross for some reason, “was designed to read and understand language, postulate hypotheses when asked questions, research, and then generate responses (along with references and citations) to back up its conclusions.”