Will a robot take my job? | The Age of A.I.

The fear of losing jobs to computers is a common one among millions of people, and one that many have seen happen in their lifetime. But A.I. has the potential to allow many jobs to evolve, to become safer, more efficient and better for society as a whole.

The Age of A.I. is a 8 part documentary series hosted by Robert Downey Jr. covering the ways Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Neural Networks will change the world.

0:00 Will A Robot Take My Job?
1:24 Trucking
5:22 Testing Automation
14:13 The Port
21:22 Robots With Vision
27:31 Cooking With Robots
33:50 Change Is Coming

[backjack]

Question: will robot take away my job
Me: first, I should have a job

[bananaskindevelopment]

Truck being taught to be human... It became so human that it started a family, pays it's rent, lost it's job and now works taking orders at maccas

[flfydragon]

Agricultural engineer here
Yes it will.
That's why we actually need a different economic model, We already have an overabundant productive capacity and the technology that could allow us to sustainably grow.
The problem is that our economic system is too primitive to adapt to it and we're unwilling to replace it because doing so would negate the wealth and power of those who are currently at the top.

[animeshsharma]

We went from "will robots take my job" to "will I get a job" in 2 years.

[jankiller]

I think Youtube kinda talks too softly about possible job loss because they would strongly benefit from a lenient public stance on AI, seeing as Google is heavily invested in developing AI.

[mli]

When they say "work side by side with humans" they are totally downplaying the impact of AI on jobs. Yes it will work with humans but we will need like 2 humans in every factory instead of 200.

[Cherrybnbns]

I love the woman, she talks to the truck as if it's her child.

[ProfessorJayTee]

Yes, new jobs will be created. But the fact is, there are always considerably less of the new jobs. Otherwise, to a company, it wouldn't be worth the expense or risks of automating. My father worked the wing line at Boeing for 27 years. When he started as a machinist, they had 47 people working building the wings. When he retired, the wing line had only two computer operators (of which he was one) and two technician/mechanics.

[terrillmel]

It’s fundamentally different this time. “Ones” and “Zeros” don’t cost anything, nor do they take manufacturing facilities. It’s software, not hardware.

[miguelcarvalho]

Maureen: Alright switch to manual and let's slow down

Truck: I'm sorry Maureen, but I can't let you do that

[thelemoneater]

Step 1. Make your old employees train your new employees.
Step 2. Make them work together to maximize efficiency.
Step 3. Get rid of old employees.

[shouvikkundu]

Robots can't take my job cause I don't have a job

[surajvkothari]

Humans: Robots have no common sense!
Robots: Humans crossing in front of truck have no common sense!

[HenriZwols]

Me: "One spinach pizza please."
Operator: "Our computer has predicted that you want a pepperoni pizza."
Me: "I don't feel like pepperoni today. I'd like a spinach pizza please."
Operator: "Sorry. We don't have a spinach pizza ready for you. We have a pepperoni pizza with your name on it. Now do you want the pizza or not?"
Me: "No."
Operator: "Sir, you are contributing to the food waste problem."

[onelove]

Robots can take any job imaginable —even the job of a robot creator.

[justjames]

It makes me cross when I hear about the 'shortage' of truck drivers. According to 'supply and demand' laws any shortage in any sector causes prices to rise, so you'd think that truck drivers would be well paid but their pay is low, coupled with the demands of the job forcing people to sleep in the cab, spend long periods of time away from home and family, why anybody does it is questionable. The trucking industry has unprecedented demand due to e-commerce, but they're looking at AI to be able to get rid of the workforce completely. As for the roboticist and Robert Downney Jnr saying 'new jobs will be created', those jobs will increasingly be technically demanding which means that the biggest losers in the AI race will be the low skilled or medium skilled workers. So what will they do?

[ANocers]

Scariest part about all this is where he said “they are all connected to the cloud, program one and you program them all.” Wouldn’t want the wrong people to get ahold of that.

[Waffn]

I used to work with welding robots. The same work that one robot did in 3-4 hours used to take a human welder around a full work week of 37 hours to complete. I fed two robots so I could do around 4 weeks of manual work in 8 hours with the help of automation. Robots reduce the need for human labor because they are way more effective.

[onepiecebarca]

Imagine people of the future watching this

[Anthony-]

Spoiler: self-driving trucks are just transformers in disguise ; )