Chicken little rises again. John Oliver did a good deep dive on this on SUN and concluded people need to focus on doing "a series of non-routine tasks that require social intelligence, complex critical thinking, and creative problem-solving."

 

It is often pointed out that people analyze how many "current" jobs will be lost to automation. We all know great examples, laborer on a farm before tractors and fertilizer, assembly line e/e at a car plant before robots took those jobs, pay-phone manufacturer / service person, TV repairman, etc.

 

Too often those skeptics don't also count the # of new jobs, related and unrelated that are created constantly. Software developer for apps didn't exist 10 years ago and how many are employed doing that now? Solar panel manufacturer? Wind turbine installer / maintenance / designer / manufacturer, etc. Podcaster. Blogger. Beanie manufacturer.

 

The world evolves. Always has. Always will.

The world is going to evolve and AI is only going to get bigger, better and stronger.  
 

 

How this affects humans remains to be seen and is a mystery IMO.  
 

I don’t feel optimistic about AI leading our futures.  It won’t be beneficial to humans IMO.  

This is where that discussion of a universal basic income comes in and gathers some steam.

It's wild that this guy said this a year before Covid struck.  Sooooooo much has changed in the past 4 years as a result of Covid.   I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but I did notice that the guy that said this was Chinese.