Venture capitalist: AI will displace 40 percent of world's jobs in as soon as 15 years

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[tronderiksen]

How about 60 minutes have Andrew Yang on their show to educate them on how to solve the problem?
#yang2020
#yanggang

[MICHGO]

HUMANS HAVEN'T OVERCOME THE INVENTION OF THE SMARTPHONE YET.

[NikoKun]

We're now seeing AI that can write code pretty darn well, after being given a simple description of an app/site in plain English. And sure that'll eventually replace programmer jobs, but just a little further down the line, it's not just jobs that could be threatened, whole companies that produce brand-named softwares, could become entirely obsolete, when bosses/CEOs, or even the average consumer, can just ask an AI for an equivalent software, on the fly. Same goes for a lot of things too, not just software..

[tomkat]

I'm gonna open up a AI repair man business

[scmb]

Good, the world can do with 40% less. Let’s start with AI CEOs.

[MarlandX]

The United States better get behind Presidential candidate Andrew Yang's proposal to gill ALL U$ citizens $1, 000 per month.

[tomkat]

I can't wait for Total Recall Johny Cabs

[Hernanlue]

So will people pay taxes and all that if there is no jobs to make money

[robomop]

I dream of a future where automation frees humans from menial labor, where automation creates abundance for all, and where everyone is free to pursue work that is truly fulfilling and devote our lives to what we're really passionate about.

#yang2020

[hopedance]

This also ties in with what musk was saying about how he is more wary of AI than about nukes. That’s pretty huge...

[TheGameTrainzHD]

The completely automated McDonalds in Texas 👀

[DennisNedryisStillAlive]

Glad to see 60 minutes interviewing Kai Fu Lee. His prescience regarding the threat of AI needs to be heard everywhere.

[pedrocavalcante]

This documentary was made in 2019. The following year came the covid-19 pandemic.

[rehanAllahwala]

I am unable to see your website based videos, Please upload on youtube so the whole world can watch them.

[jtalexandre]

He says clearly displaceable and not displaced. The title is misleading.

[vadaann]

We can always eat the rich, I suppose.

[Padoinky]

He is so spot on... it starts with drips and drabs of job functions ... initially, in the 1st generation, it will be nothing too serious, say something like 10% of your job, 5% of my job are automated via robotic processes and AI... this will happen UTR, so to speak, therefore, b/c there is, in most current situations, always something else that we can now take on with that freed-up 5-10% of our daily work capacity, this “cool” new technology will be welcomed and with that, demand for the next iteration and generation will spike, both from workers and owners of at some point-in-time, the balance between workers having too much to do and then having not enough to do, will flip... this is the turning point wherein we face our strange new world....whether that point-in-time is 10, 20 or 30 years down the road, it is coming and will impact every aspect of the globe - people, some species of animals (think food production, pets, extinct species brought back to existence, etc), plants, trees, you name it... IMHO of course

[animeshbhatt]

Let's take an example here. Chat bots are already used in the industry, how many jobs have been displaced so far? Customer base and demands have increased exponentially and hence we have AI to cater to the growing demand.

[adhigunamahendra]

Four years ago I laughed at this guy. Not anymore.

[NOLAMarathon]

Technology -- whether hard or soft -- always reduces jobs. It's never been otherwise. But what it also does is free up resources which will be deployed to support other human needs. The probability is much greater that the onset of AI will be a net *creator* of jobs. Some job categories might disappear, just like the automobile put buggy whip makers out of business. But other, newer job categories will show explosive growth.