The Rise of the Machines - Why Automation is Different this Time

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That’s why you become an electrical engineer. You control the robots lol

OH MY GOD WHAT TO DO NO JOBS OH MY GOD KILL ROBOTS.
Or change the number of working hours to 4hours, and double the jobs?
So that we al get improved living standards?
Why not? That way the robots get to live at least, you monsters.

YANG 2020

so it is like once we will spend money by buying from big companies we will not be able to get money from any other way. I think the solution for this will be all back to when trading itself was being discovered when we had to give something in return of something. I am not sure how. But i think in future we will have different economy. or maybe it will be like Everything of basic needs will be free. maybe it will end of economy itself and money system

just remember this - one move of cutting Elctical Laps and all robot world will vanish in the blink of an eye. with interruption of this magnitude, it will be almost impossible to resto it.

HEY. I flip burgers, you know.

The nature of jobs have definitely changed, personally I find that there are more software jobs than there are people to fill them, and with the continued boom of the information age, this sector of growth is not slowing down. It's currently one of, if not the fastest growing industry out there.

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Can't humans live without jobs?

This is going to result in some Russian Revolution type shit where all the poor and middle class revolt and ban automation.

Powerful startup and tech companies dominant with only 10% of the workers of old school corps.

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The benefit of automation to society is to lead us into a critical mass in which all of our needs are cared for without human effort, enabling us to all focus on exploration, learning, creativity and general enjoyment of life without needing to spend the greater half of our waking lives trying to survive.

I'm getting a nier automata vibe for some reason

Maybe we just need dual system. We can use automation and traditional both

This is exactly why the number of people majoring in Computer Science and/or Data Science is rapidly increasing.

In Quebec, Canada, for the last 5 years or so there has been a shortage of around 1000 jobs in computer science and programming. Mind you, Quebec is a pretty small province of 7 millions people. I would assume big countries such as the united-states creates hundreds of thousands of new jobs that aren’t fullfilled each year. We will not be out of job yet, far from it, but we will just see a shift in jobs towards computer science.
Someday, inevitebly, there will be not enough work to do and too many people. I think that before this happens, either people will gradually work less (20h/week instead of 40h) to make room for other workers, or some people will remain jobless. For most logical and moral countries, social security checks will pay their bills. Little aside: I bet my money americans would rather let people die in the streets than increasing taxes to help those in need.

6:17 Please no, dont ask them to make new Virus! T-Virus and G-Virus also T-Veronika! NO MORE! NO! DO NOT!
ROBOT! DONT GET CLOSER TO THIS THING! NO! DONT TRY!
Wait, did you...
Nvm I will go eat others
(Resident Evil easter egg)
XD

So I guess the jobs of the near future is to create AI’s to create better AI’s?

10:07 omg he ate a kurzgesagt member

Isso não é necessariamente ruim, só significa que trabalharemos menos, o que é bom, por um lado.

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"It's different this time." Yeah right!

When technolgy exceeds the threshold of learning for a human(right from childhood) we humans would becomes slaves to the billionares

Transhumanism is a solution

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if complete automation do take place then we can finally give up on the concept of currency as there will no longer be a need for it

About the productivity growth: since machines are replacing repetitive tasks and decreasing the required amount of working time, while keeping or increasing the outcome, a simple solution will be to shrink a working hours - i.e., make it a 4-days work week instead of 5. This will highly improve a quality of life for all involved, while less money can be paid on absence, child care and old relatives care - those workers who stays at home will do it themselves, somehow. In addition, there are a lot of jobs, no robot can do (yet) - this is the human care, such as kindergartens, nursing homes, house keeping, etc. Let's count it as job and pay for it - here we got a lot of new working hours. For example, why not to make a housekeeping a job - so every human who stays at home to take care of household and children will earn his pay? In addition, there are new demanding industries - space industry, renewable energy and so on - that requires still many workers for all those tasks machines cannot complete, from development and till installation, service and support.

About internet, it's not completely true. There are a lot of new jobs, just not in the sense we're used to think of - for example, bloggers, Instagram models, Telegram channel owners, TheXvid channel bloggers, etc. They are not the same jobs, by definition, right. But they are JOBS. Same goes about self-employed. Say, if once sitting at home and making small pretty thing wasn't able to pay your rent, today, thanks to internet, you can sell your hand-made crafts to millions at once - and this definitely can be called a job. That is, the definition of a job is changing.

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Great way to quickly educate your Boomer and Silent Gen working class parents. Thanks.

but doesnt this mean that maybe humans dont need to work at all sometime?

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If no one needs to work there’s no point of money existing so this could completly affect the capitalistic system and probably kill it because its based on cash

Google Andrew Yang the only man talking about the Automation disaster that is coming.

Problem with automation that it will kill the economy of mass consumerism because mass produced products and services need somebody with money to buy products and use services. No country or organisation still have not given new economy model or tried a transition to a new economy model for fighting growing unemployment and unequality between rich and poor. We need to develope new system that works and adapts to human needs not making humans to adapt to system.

Look up the Butlerian Jihad and see how automation and AI can go _horribly wrong._

jokes on u kurzgesagt theres no machine that can out-procrastinate me

so... programmers will survive the longest?

Till they invent machines that can fix machines and get I to the crawl spaces I go in to do it then I'll always have work.
Mind you, the machines I work on arent robots but water treatment and the kit varies so much I doubt there will be ap machine that can do it in my lifetime.

6:17 OH GOD ITS UMBRELLA CORPORATION

Anyone who thinks Andrew Yang is "going to save" them is being a fool. Andrew Yang lacks political experience, and has not shown us that he is willing to fight the establishment to make things come to pass. Rather the opposite, Andrew Yang has shown a willingness to give up on his ideals by considering a position with Biden (who is a typical centrist), a position that would force him to give up on much of what he supposedly believe in. He also backtracked on Medicare For All, which shows just how unprincipled he is and willing to abandon his political stances when under pressure.

*Correction* we are giving our jobs to the machines, they're not taking it

And this is why I support socialism

Historical US unemployment rate tells a different story, though it hasn't changed that much since 1994 (and further back) population has grown significantly, so new jobs where actually created during those times (still are because unemployment is still going downwards)

I think the realisation here is that the communists are right all along. As the robots take over all jobs, and the robots can self improve themselves better than we can teach them, the capitalist society makes less and less sense.
UBI becomes a necessity, and not just utopia due to the rabid automations.

I recommend the book Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari to everyone that liked this video. :)

automation would mean prosperity for all if the wealth generated from it was equally distributed but capitalism doesn't allow that to happen. rich ppl aren't going to give up their massive concentrations of wealth willingly or they'd have done it already. we just gotta revolt, guillotine the billionaires, redistribute their wealth, and overthrown capitalism. that's just what we gotta do

millennial's killing the industry's industry

How much does it cost to make a animation video like this?

10:35 I can't help but think about "Where are all these people going?" when showing a post scarcity civilization. It's not like they have jobs they need to go to.

A Automation machine that makes Automation machine that makes Automation machine that makes Automation machine that makes Automation machine that makes Automation machine that makes Automation machine that makes candy!

andrew yang 2020?

Let's take a look at the idiot who created skinet Bruh :-P

This is andrew yang territory

This is only a problem under capitalism.
Imagine robots taking over if every person was guaranteed a home, food, entertainment, and health care.
It would be a fucking miracle.

But no, all of these gains are handed to the 20 richest """people"""" on earth, and the rest of us starve.

Kurzgesagt's solution to everything is always space communism.

But guys if we automate EVERYTHING that means that since stuff is so cheap to produce, everything will get cheaper, and cheaper, which will cuase a chain reaction until everything is so cheap everyone will have their dream house and have everything they ever want. All we need to do is automate everything and then agree to all lower costs at the same time

But eventually the robots will do everything for us and we can ALL live luxurious lives ... right