Does Technology Actually Kill Jobs?
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Alex: Does Technology Actually Kill Jobs?
Alex, next year: AI fcked me up!
We'll get to the point where tech designs, builds, repairs tech. And tech, will be everywhere.
You can't really use past data.
Yes please. Now we can replace Girlfriends/Boyfriends with AI
That's still James, y'know?
Who’s Alex?
@@noneyabizz8337 nier automata??😮😮
"You can always become a streamer." 7:23
Yeah.....not even streaming is safe of AI, especially from a vtuber turtle and his both creations
You mean Vedal and Neuro sama+Evil Neuro
@@sebay4654 yup, exactly
Tbh it is also the work of anny as well, but yeah those twins are getting numbers for sure
Not that I don't like them, but it'a impressive how AI can even reach to the entertainment industry
people actually watch vtubers?
@@ItsReallyGeo You'd be suprised
Yes, it is still a bit niche but it's getting closer to the top streamers like asmongold or Ibai
Neuro it's far away a top streamer, but has got an audience
But aren't those people putting work behind it? They still also have to edit the videos.
No, Jobs has been dead for a while
Thumbnail: "So, Robo, what do you think I should do"
Robo: "Go home. You're fired"
2:45 as someone who works in telecom, the buildings that housed this equipment are now abandoned and sometimes haunted. its so eerie walking through a massive 6 story building with little to no windows that have moldy walls and droopy ceiling tiles... then you find the server rooms which are still maintained well. The amount of jobs lost to automation in telecom is nuts.
And then people don't really read any more. Libraries are pretty much abandoned except for the computers, graphic novels, or as the rare hang out spot.
@@EmilyS-gk3sthuh? I live in a regular ol town and there’s still a decent amount of people checking out books or media at libraries
@@njmcfreak Try the more populated city or the college campus libraries.
@@EmilyS-gk3st People still read. They just don't read books as much, especially not paper ones.
@@EmilyS-gk3st my town is a quarter million people. It is one floor of a not huge building
As a tv repair tech myself:
I hope my job stays alive for longer than the Switchboard operators.
But who knows
I would imagine your skillset could transfer somewhat smoothly to a different profession, like medical equipment repair or any other kind of specialized electronics
They are already not bothering to repair cheaper units.
I had an HD 4K TV which was in need of repair recently. I posted on several different groups looking for someone to do the job, and the nearly unanimous response was "Nobody does that anymore, you'll just have to recycle and replace it.", so that was what I unfortunately ended up doing. 🤷♂
You can go as repair/service technician to a company with industrial machines. Pretty well paid job if you are willing to learn.
For my place of work, it's not cause we don't want to, it's cause we can't. Manufacturers tend to not create replacement parts (like screens) for the cheap brands. Hell, some big brands don't give all parts we need for repair either for "reasons"
I served in a military hospital in southern italy in 98 at the phone calls were still routed manually. there were no cables to be moved around, though, just buttons.
Chimney sweep is still an existing job where homes still have a chimney, especially in rural areas
Luddites weren't afraid of technology but angry about of losing their jobs and being forced to take up jobs that both paid less and were less safe in the city and mines, or being forced to emigrate overseas, and all because of corporate greed. One of reasons way Britain has such bad cuisine is because of the 19th century migration to the city, recipes and foods easily cooked in the country could not be had in the cities and were thus forgotten.
High workforce participation does not mean those jobs are good jobs and in a knowledge-based economy that this slowly cannibalized by automation what's even gonna be the point of college for most people or even finishing high school? We're nearly 18 months into generative ai and it's already passed the Bar Exam, in two decades what do you think it's gonna be capable of? We're fucked.
It's already begining to be used to replace game Developers (specifically designers(Writers aka my main focus)) even (source i have been studying game dev for the past few years and I've Already Seen the other students begin using AI to Cheat in the courses but were instead Praised by the Teacher for "Taking Advantage of Modern Tools to Expedite the design process"(i quit that place after the 2nd year since id already gotten 3 Separate qualifications through them instead of signing up for annother course because i personally see ai as it is Now as Morally wrong and corrupted at a foundational level
AI automating jobs means less labor to make something. Less labor means cheaper production. This means more business can make the product making more competition. This makes the product cheaper.
AI means cheaper products.
Cheaper products means things that were originally to expensive to make because their constituent products were too costly, are now possible. E.g. making the Hoover dam 500 years ago would've been completely uneconomical, or SpaceX would be unprofitable in the 1950s.
TVs being cheaper to replace rather than repair also speaks to the industry's shift towards planned obsolescence.
Not necessarily. I'm not saying planned obsolecscence isn't a thing, it absolutely is. I think disregard for repairability is a much bigger problem though. At the end of the day, it's normal that ye olde CRT TV, which was put together by human hands, could easily be repaired by human hands. A modern TV on the other hand is a highly integrated unit that could only have been produced by machines and if you're not very careful to design it in a way that makes it still easily repairable, you automatically end up with something where each little problem takes it straight to the landfill.
Sometimes the problem is the power supply or a capacitor which can easily be replaced by a human, but the amount of time it'll take and the work time fee alone will sometimes cost more than a new TV.
Not necessarily, in part it's a co.bination of the cost of making them new vs the cost of paying someone to fix it.
If you have a 5yo TV that breaks, are you going to pay someone $1k to fix it or just get the latest model with better everything for $2k?
Most people will do the latter.
What we really need is electronics that are designed to be repairable. The initial sticker price will probably be a tad higher, but that should be offset over time when you can easily replace pieces that break rather than the whole thing. And even if you do feel like an upgrade, it should be trivial for someone to take the old device off your hands for a bit of change and fix it themselves relatively cheaply.
@Razear Not really, it just shows capitalism has allowed technological innovation to reduce the cost of production so much that it's cheaper to make something new than go to the bother of repairing it. Quite excellent really.
@@unvergebeneid That only really applies to consumer countries, like the USA, Which has high value currency so it's easier to import than pay someone to fix. Other countries do fix and repair is normal.
"does technology kill jobs?"
- Nope, HR does.
Correct. I work part time for a small family run engineering business. I could earn more back on the "big corp" world but dealing with HR, among other things, is just not worth it.
Nope, corporations do. CEO's with multimillion salaries get bonuses for record profits while laying off employees.
It's not just about if the jobs are killed, but how much the replacement jobs pay. I guarantee you, they're paying more for programmers now than they will for "prompt engineers" in the future.
Not quite. Programmers are not often hired. It's a product that's baught and used to replace an employee by a cheaper one. Programmers aren't needed to run the product.
If prompt engineers are more productive than programmers, they will be paid more. If it takes five programmers getting paid $100,000 each to do a project and they can be replaced by a single prompt engineer, that person will be paid more than a programmer. It is unlikely that he will be paid $500K, but he might get paid $200K.
@@CCoburn3 i highy doubt a "prompt engineer" would be paid more. The whole point with a.i is to reduce cost and improve productivity at most the "prompt engineer" would be paid the same as a single programmer if not less depending on the work needed to be done and as a.i improves there is a possibility that his job may also be a risk. Also 4 programmers are now out of a job in this scenario.
@@CCoburn3 There's a good chance 'prompt engineer' won't even be a thing in the long run, similar to how switchboard operators didn't last long. The whole point of the recent AI boom is to make the AI as intuitive to control as possible, with natural language commands. The better the AI gets, the less a 'prompt engineer' will even be needed. Also even if the role survives in some form, wages are a function of not just demand but also supply. There'll be a much larger supply of capable prompt engineers - since it's much easier to train for - than there are skilled programmers today. And you'll need fewer of them to get your work done. Both forces will push down the wages they'll receive.
@@CCoburn3 What's more likely to happen is that prompting the AI is simply tacked on to the job responsibilities of all the people whose jobs haven't yet been fully automated, and likely with no or little increase in their pay. At best they'll be given some training courses on how to work with AI, and then expected to take on even more responsibilities than before. Which kills a lot of jobs and creates almost none.
Technology is developed to REDUCE number of current jobs needed in that area so save expenses. People then have to go to another segment of the supply line to look for work.
The problem is we are nearing a point where ALL segments of the supply chain have been maximized by technology and job reduction, leaving less decent hobs available for job seekers. Looking at past tech upgrades won't be helpful as the supply chain line had many lower technology spots to move to.
What remains are the lower level service jobs that haven't been automated like retail, delivery, restaurants, and fast food.
We are at a point where all top level professions will be affected- doctors, lawyers, engineers, programmers, etc...
pro AI shills forget that for we to have societal issues we dont need EVERY job to be replaced, just enough for an ever-increasing unemployment rate driving wages even lower than they already are
If AI and robots could do all jobs for us then we wouldn't need to work. The problem is we are probably still a century away from that.
@@lycanthoss the problem is getting the rich and the bought politicians to see humans as humans and give a universal income to what will be vast unemployed masses. but we see how people treat the homeless today...I've little hope for humans.
@chaoticviking7679 100%. The people in charge see employees as a line item or an expense that they're trying to reduce as much as possible. Either by paying employees less or removing them altogether. If that trend continues then at some point there's not going to be enough middle class to support the economy, because at the end of the day someone has to actually buy all the products and services being made.
Yeah what the people who keep bringing up the Luddite story miss is that we actually have lost most work in each sector that's been highly automated. Most of us used to work in the primary sector i.e. agriculture. Now only a tiny minority do in most developed countries. We moved from there to the secondary sector i.e. manufacturing. Now factories are highly automated, and most people in developed economies work in the teritiary i.e. services sector. Well if you automate that too, then where're we gonna move to? There is no fourth sector of the economy. They keep airily saying new jobs will be created, but rarely specify exactly what those new jobs will be (other than 'making the machines' i.e. AI programmers - which is never going to employ most people). And crucially what we need is MASS employment at a living wage, not some niche new professions.
Progression is like a steamroller slowly moving towards you, you have 3 options. Move out of the way, get on board or get flattened! You can reason with it all you like but that thing is not stopping. With this in mind, you will make much better decisions!
And my mind went to the Austin Powers movie.
To get onboard you still need to get out of the way.
@@alanhilder1883 100% haha
At some point it might be an idea to have a word with the people driving the steamroller though. We could perhaps ask them if we could have a break from dragging the steamroller towards ourselves as we run from it and enjoy some of the increased productivity by spending time with our families and such rather than increasing their profits.
@@zyebormsteamroller says no
@zyeborm talk all you like It's still moving but closer now, make a decision! that's the point!
1:04 love how he was edited down there
Of course, it does, but with new tech comes new jobs, but those jobs are getting more complicated. So not only are we losing jobs to automation and AI, but the IQ needed to do certain jobs get higher. The future is definitely scary.
The simpler jobs being lost is also terrible for anybody entering any of these fields that are getting more complicated. You used to work a simpler job for a few years, learning along the way and then eventually being able to be hired for the more demanding/complex things due to experience. Well, that position is replaced or being replaced, removing the entry point to the field. The companies are looking only for seniors or junior positions that still require years of experience or skills that you can't really get anymore. This is also the case for internships, as there's less work to offer (it's replaced or being replaced) and many companies are getting rid of any "extra" employees that could teach interns, so nobody has the time to manage the interns anyway. All the while schools and other education methods, are not competing, because they'd need to teach expert level experience, but without the basics that's not really possible or a good idea.
it's not tech in itself that destroys jobs, it's those who own it and how they use it to squeeze ever bigger profit margins
Stop pretending workers don't also want as much money as possible. All humans want the maximum for the minimum effort.
@@joeblogs6598 never said we don't, but please come back to talk to me once you're a multi billionaire, until then it's just pathetic that you're defending them lmao
Nope. Not even close bud
@@seansingh4421 What's not close?
I've thought of this for a very long time.
It is important for those in positions to set the stage to take all of that into account and implement it intelligently so that you create a vibrant work model and economy.
You show a wikipedeia article on chimney sweeps as a outdated job, but they are still an important part of not burning down your house while having an active fire place
Unfortunately I feel that this wave of AI taking over jobs (slowly, but eventually) is going to be severely, far more impactful than basically all of the examples given combined. It’s not gonna be great.
because it's not one job here and there over time, it'll be vast swaths of jobs everywhere all the time
it will be the end of capitalism as we know it
@@chaoticviking7679 And no replacement jobs this time.
At my parents house there were no chimney sweepers because the old one died. So they had to do it themselves for years. Now there is a chimney sweeper there again so that occupation still exists.
No. The difference is that they can hire people for cheaper instead of having people with specialized skills. You can get 50 people in China churning out 5,000 Shein garments a day for $5 or you can have 1 specialist making high quality garments at a rate of 5 per day for $50/hour. Companies are always going to go for the cheaper option to pad their CEO bonuses. So yeah, there's more jobs, technically, but it also means very low pay.
I fully agree with 99% of this video, but the thing that is different this time around is that we're not building specific machinery to replace one job sector; we're building a generalist system that'll take away all jobs, including the creators of the said generalist system themselves.
Yes. After cars, there really are not a lot of horses running around.
With auto-cashiers, self-checkouts, and similar such service-role eliminators, there're fewer minimum-skill workers around, demanding a higher price for their labor than it costs for machines. Sadly, a few bad apples really hurts the whole bunch.
But generally, that just means people are pushed to different jobs. Like picking up trash. It's a surprisingly lucrative job, for just how few people are competing for your position.
PSA: this video is about job automation, which combines an area this channel does specialise in (technology) with one in which does not specialise in (economics). An unintended narrative that may not be in line with most up to date economic literature about job automation may be possible. Any normative statements should be taken with a grain of salt.
This PSA needs a homework assignment. If the Minimum Wage increase to $25 hourly in California results in lost jobs, will it still result in a more stable economy going forward that can potentially generate new job growth? (Providing workers with funds to signal market demand for new opportunities). Or do technology companies on the West Coast need to work with companies and governments on the East Coast to inflate the East Coast economies to for "more profitable" job growth to lure impoverished individuals away from the modern California "Gold Rush", towards more sustainable job markets and economies elsewhere in the country, in order to avoid over stressing water resources on the West Coast?
@@marvinmallette6795 my PSA did not make any statements about costs of labour and demand one way or the other, this was intentional. I merely want to warn people not to confuse an opinion with a fact, regardless of the truthfulness of said opinion.
@@Xtrems You're losing the plot pal.
UA-cam is a discussion "forum". A forum is _"a place, meeting, or medium where ideas and views on a particular issue can be exchanged."_
There is a need to facilitate the exchange of ideas.
PSA: Asking questions is not misinformation.
@@marvinmallette6795 I did not claim you are misinforming people. I just informed you I am not interested in a discussion with you or anyone else.
@@Xtrems It is concerning that you do not want to discuss it.
The point of peer review is to establish whether or not research stands in the face of scrutiny.
You have implied that there is advanced research which is necessary for discussion of the topics presented in the Linus Tech Tips video. _"Up to date economic literature about job automation."_ Something which has held up to scrutiny, and is perhaps considered to be established economic "theory".
If it is not "theory", then it is "hypothesis" a.k.a "speculation".
From what perspective is this speculation being done? What biases are implicit in the research?
You don't want to discuss it with anyone, but I do want the audience of Linus Tech Tips to discuss the implications, and I provided a relevant and current topic of discussion.
As a translator, absolutely it does. It also suppresses wages for existing jobs simply by existing. These aren’t tools saving translators time either; it is faster to translate from scratch than fix mtl output if you care about quality.
We still have knocker-uppers here. But they don't seem to get paid and usually are from Airbnb appartments, drunk and seem to want Wi-Fi passwords in the middle of the night 🙃
I would love to see TV repairmen make a comeback, especially to preserve CRT TVs.
I think there is a significant issue with the historical comparisons. Technology back then in luddite times excelled production and made new jobs, like looking after the machines. The jobs created didn't need massive expertise, the skills were different but achievable by the average luddite. What we're seeing now is the potential for AI and tech to simultaneously replace skilled and unskilled work while simultaneously requiring highly skilled professionals to act as support. Many can't achieve the support skills, especially not in reasonable time, but also the beginning of the elimination of multiple jobs simultaneously means there is no easy way to cope..
My grandfather was a TV technician, he fix other stuff too but TVs was his main job, he close the shop when flat TV becomes wide spread.
As someone who works in fast food and retail, we have AI taking over the drive thrue already. At a few McDs, one or both speakers are handled by an AI. As long as you speak loudly and clearly, which you should in the first place, the AI gets the order right most of the time.
May end up replacing the drive-thrue person, but to be honest, I'm happy for such a feature. Means we employees don't have to try listening to humans who have no idea to order. Whether they are stupid, drunk, old, a Karen, etc, they can deal with the an AI voice instead. And it's always a laugh to see them drive away in anger. XP
the thing that will keep creative professions AI-proof is exactly that: the human element. AI might be able to fill in frames for a marvel movie in 20 years (or sooner), but it’ll never be raised in a small town in flyover country and write a tender song about its demise. or a kaleidoscopic prose poem with references to its own life. or be a figure with a story for the next generation to look up to.
if some people don’t care about the human element in art, then frankly, that’s their loss. but there will always be a market for art created by humans, and no amount of automation can eliminate that.
These are some of my favorite videos. A quick little history lesson on tech.
AI will absolutely destroy jobs not because AI it's self but the greedy ceos will ex. a ceo of a game company fired over half it's staff then gave himself a massive bonus(what would have been their income) for the trouble.
The biggest reason why there are so few TV repair technicians is that you no longer get the circuit board schema for your TV as you used to and neither is it available online from the manufacturer, so anyone trying to fix a TV has to first (at least partially) reverse-engineer it, which makes it usually cost more to repair than to buy new. That's why right to repair is so important!
One key difference in the new automation of jobs through Ai is that even the jobs where a human element was needed but is payed extremely badly (like music and arts) will now be devalued even more. This might lead to a movement where people go "anti AI" for their products but it will never be enough to support all artists.
The guy playing super difficult parts of Bethoven on the street for some pennies in his hat will become even more irrelevant, despite his years of training and skill. Now, people who took a major risk in chosing this path because it fullfills them, will have to rely even more on building a community through social media and very few are prepared or even interested in this, as it´s basically a second job.
it's called technological outsourcing, and eventually it's going to be hard to have a job, but it's still a long way off
Every year we pick up our pace on the race to human obsolescence.
@@noneyabizz8337damn shakespeare
Eventually they will have to realize that AI replacements don't consume their products, so when they eliminate enough jobs the consumer base able to afford the products will start to suffer and the market grow smaller.
Yea that's the most negative way to see it, but a huge amount of office jobs can in time be eliminated and replaced by AI. Cabs, busses and trains will with time be automated. In fact a lot of jobs can be replaced with automated systems that's faster and cheaper than having some human do the job. Stores have tested this with self service checkout. Less people working as cashiers means saved money for the stores. And yes sometimes I select the self checkout to avoid the cues. Oh and the same area as two checkouts use hosts ten self checkout registers. More efficiency and cheaper for the store.
So with less jobs what will people do to make money? Heck if I know.
@@blahorgaslisk7763 it will be the end of capitalism
And this is why we need UBI so that we can _let_ robots take our jobs without humans being any worse off! Don't need to fight newer technology if it comes alongside newer, more compatible economics
Low tier restaurant musicians were replaced by affordable tape decks. I have a friend who's dad lost his living because of that and he could not reprofile because that was he did since he was a kid.
The best example I give people when saying that is "Do you prefer having 20 people per town making ice, or do you prefer having a refrigerator?" Also new technologies don't create themselves, people have to make and maintain them. Just like with my ice factory example, people have to make and fix refrigerators, thus the number jobs actually increases in most technological advancements.
Absolutely, supermarkets are a prime example with self checkouts.
Yes. As much as I love technical innovation, one thing it does it crush societies economy and intrinsic values. Not just in replacing the person with a machine, but by taking liberties providing less over time and becoming lazy in maintaining the processes and values of the company. - or people.
What?
Where/when?
@@silversolver7809 Everywhere, all the time... Step outside of IT or office spaces and it happens just as often.
@@R3AL-AIM But you say "crush societies economy and intrinsic values". Society and civilization has advanced thru history in line with tech advances-we even name human eras after the main tech of the time, eg Stone, Age, iron Age etc.
@@silversolver7809 On a technological level, sure, but humans are not robots. We are humans. Have you looked at the history of war and dictatorship? None of this is going to last. Once the people start to fall, so does everything else. The technology is never completely lost, it just evolves, many of which after societies and nations before them had failed.
“Everything we’ve learned from history says otherwise” ai is the exception to the rule. It is beyond anything we’ve seen in history.
Imagine being a content creator that literally just recites information ready available on the web and pretending AI is not a problem for you
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Did you even watch the video? the point is that although jobs will be lost, there are always new jobs opening up, and people are generally pretty good at adapting to that.
Chimney Sweep still exists, but they do not enter chimneys themselves anymore, not are they kid.
LG sent a tv repair guy instead of just replacing my tv... he spend so much time and couldnt fix it, he returned 2 weeks later with new replacement parts and couldnt fix it.
I asked to give me the parts and the service secret menu code, and fixed it all by myself. So my entire TV got replaced at the end.... part for part... but it took almost a month and i fixed it by my own, i just wanted to replace the broken mainboard for free because it was still under warrenty.
LG TV Mainboard broke down, bad quality product maybe. I hate Smart TV systems, its stupid slow and not very durable.
Currently losing my work as a recording engineer in the french voice dubbing department because lf AI, clients have the choice on budget, and already prefer quantity over quality.
I've noticed automation is affecting white-collar jobs more than blue-collar jobs now. Replacing manual labor is a lot more expensive than it is to replace a white-collar job with a piece of software. Physical labor replacements are also not very versatile. Humans may not be great at anything but were definitely ok at almost everything. It's getting to the point where a manager can just promt an AI to spit out any calculations an accountant would normally do. They also wouldn't need to wait for them.
depends, does it create new opportunities that translate into jobs that humans can be employed, or does the tech not only replace humans in one area but support itself by being logically used in those new opportunities. And at what point does it become you've unemployed enough people to make capitalize not work when demand can not afford supply.
Without the video even being uploaded. It already has. Automation has been going on for long time now
Steno Pool.. Typing Pool.. Photo-Copier.. BackBlaze killed off the IT DataHandler who did Tape Back-ups and Disk Changes in the 60's, 70's and 80's.
James is great shout outs to James!
I think one of the earliest jobs AI will replace is those who create AI. That is a process that clearly can be automated because it is all information processing.
**My Computer is super hot**
The meaning has changed drastictly over the decades. But, not in a good way
A correlation between increased automation and increased workforce, does not mean a causation. Adjust for market size, and you'll see the reduction. Not only that, but also a median wage decrease.
Yuval Noah Harari already predicted how this probably will occur a few decades ago, you dont need AI to replace EVERY job to create a widespread social problem, you just need ai to replace enough jobs for the demand of workers be lower than the amount of unemployed citizens, thus creating an unbalance in the economy.
"something for the rag and bone man....over my dead .... body"
Better technology makes more better jobs for horses
Looking to technology replacing CEOs and company boards, because if you're really looking out for the stockholders, those golden parachutes and mega bonuses really aren't worth it for the most part. Let RoboCEO do it for a smaller byte of the pie.
well the thing is moslty in the past people would be replaced by tools that still required some sort of person to (operate/maintain/upgrade etc) however the whole point of this wave is to make tools that are self suficient (at least when we talk in the whole system), yes there will be jobs were using people would be cheaper than machines the kinds of jobs people wouldnt do unless desperate
Tycho Brahe! You need to make a video about how badass he was
Ironically more and more videos of people losing their jobs to AI are appearing, so... Specially on the design area where the AI is trained on the style of the designer before getting fired.
The absolute second that a corporation can save even a dollar a day they will do it without hesitation
Well, that Question... My answer is Yes. There has been A Robot Cooking Food instead. Just let it Sink in for a while. Sooner or Later, Building Sky scaper or High Rise apartment will be duil by Ai powered Machinary(ies)
Yes it has since the industrial revolution but it has also created a lot.
the problem is in art and such, where the jobs dont just get taken over by machines, but the original creators actually get stolen from. there is no "machine learning" in art. there is just a list of things it can steal from. its just frankensteining something together out of stolen pieces. "but ferret, thats how humans learn!" no its not. if you give a child a pen and paper it can learn to draw from its own experiences and its surrounding. its not gonna open up an instagram from another artist fro every single brush stroke to copy that from a picture from an already established artist.
I know ai bros have a hard time grasping that concept. but there is literally a leaked document where it lists thousands of artists which the machine should reference from. some of my friends are on that list. they are seeing less and less income due to ppl just generating art from their content thats been fed into a machine. there is no creative process here, there is no consent, there is no understanding of what the machine generates. it doesnt know what a thing is. it just copies whatever it sees. And before ai bros get mad: if you arent creative yourself, and you arent affected by the problem, your opinion on the matter is worth nothing, so keep it to yourself.
How about "specialty stores". Internet shipping killed a lot of them where I live. Just as the big mall
History of Technology, right in Jessica’s field.
Does Technology Actually Kill Jobs? Duh.
So does shipping jobs overseas. People aren't widgets and it takes years to become a skilled employee.
"MOTHMAN MAILMAN MAKES A SPECIAL DELIVERY IN OUR BUTTS " -You know the editors had a blast with this one
Idk what yall did but all LTT content feel off my feed
There are some differences that make this threat more serious than any other. Speed. It will be one of the fastest changes in history. The revolution of these tools is something never seen before. Implementation cost. Unlike other changes in history, this one will have a very low implementation cost, lower than maintaining human employees. Finally, it will reach professionals who cannot simply change their area in 3 months, they are people who spent a decade studying, and would need another decade to change their professional area.
Sadly the closing few statements about not resulting in a workforce reduction are actually not true. The last 5 years has seen the most massive shift of people into an unemployed status than what has been observed in several decades. This is going to continue at an increasing rate for the next 5 years, unfortunately. Between automation and continued rampant offshoring - North America is continually digging it's own grave. The shift from a production-based work society to a service-based work society has been detrimental to our skills as a nation and has all but deleted the willingness to work from our society as a whole.
Are you guys low-key sponsored by Chuck Tingle? This is the second reference to his work this week!
I think we wont have to worry about finding a job replacement in our lifetime.
I think the biggest challenge is we need more education as the years go by to make up for the more advanced lives that we have. I'm pro for that in many ways. But tech is replacing jobs much faster then we can retrain people. And the older people get, the more they don't want to do that. Its stressful. And this pace is growing faster and faster. And now as of the last couple of years, we have learnt that its the 'brain jobs' that are at most risk. And as good as robots can be at doing a single task, nothing beats the human for more complex tasks. So I think the future will be everyone will work in the sweat shop of Ai/Machines. And we wont get a good life doing it. So think about the sweat shops today. That will be the future of humanity. Clap Clap.
This round of automation will be different. The reason why technology didn't reduce unemployment before was that there were still skills that humans could easily do that technology couldn't. Things like understand speech, text and vision, or walk across a room. Because of these human only carve-out areas, mass employment could be achieved by having tech handle the things it does best, while people handled the things they did best. Now tech is encroaching into those human only carve-out areas. When that happens, there won't be anyplace to support mass human employment.
We'll still need humans at the high end to do the new creative stuff, and we'll need humans at the low end to keep AI grounded in reality. For that second part, while an AI could design a new shirt, that doesn't mean that shirt would be something that people at the time would want. You need people to tell the AI what they like and what they don't. However you won't need anywhere near full employment to do that, and the "keep AI grounded" part is very low-skilled and low-paying.
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I studied industrial automation so when the robots rise, I am on the right side!
Society is not going from horse and buggy, to manufacturing, we are going from employees doing everything, to automation. When every job along your level of education is automated, where will you find employment? There will be fewer jobs for those who are not capable of training for better employment, and fewer available jobs for all the newly skilled workers. I always laugh when people say, don't worry, it'll be fine. This is the new industrial revolution, and people like that have no idea what is about to happen. Autonomous farming, autonomous manufacturing, autonomous warehousing, autonomous shipping, autonomous delivery, autonomous vehicles to the point where you will own nothing, and you be happy about it. An app for a ride, car shows up, you get in, it drives you somewhere, you get out, it then drives off to pick up the next passenger. Blue collar, white collar, it doesn't matter. If it is a redundant job, a human won't be doing it. Recognize what is about to happen, it is going to be profound!
Smooth video.
I was a TV repairman until the 2000s and then switched to computer repair. The TV repairman work just ran out.
do you know 240p? the old game console version of 480i?
@@gamecubeplayer what about it. TVs played at 480 for decades as did game consoles. The 240 I have not seen one as that would be something from the 30s give or take.
@@csumme7 tv was 480 interlaced lines 60 fields per second but many older game consoles outputed a compatible signal that was 240 progressive lines 60 frames per second, please check out "the history of 240p"
@@csumme7 please check out "the history of 240p"
Is it just me or does his shirt looks like it says seal backwards instead of LABS. 😂😂
I'm surprised you didn't bring up self serve gas stations. Not too long ago states like Oregon still had certain areas where it was illegal for individuals to pump their own gas. However station owners using their own children to pump gas was apparently ok for some reason.
It's still illegal to pump one's own gas in New Jersey, I believe.
@@stevexracer4309 If by you, you mean them then yes.
@@stevexracer4309 LOL! Whatever helps you sleep at night kid. Go pump some gas and breath in real deep!
at the end of the day, bosses fire people, not technology
Do bad reviews kill companies?
No, bad products do.
Do technology kill jobs?
No, your unwillingness to accept the change does.
yes, it's not a question...been a fact for decades....all the way back to the automated assembly line robots, up till amazon crushing the mom and pop stores to ai used for writing and art, including music...so yes, objectively and indeniably so.
You really picked a bad time for this upload. Open AI will announce something tomorrow, it could be epic
no it creates more tedious jobs.
the jobs paradox.
So, blue collar jobs and low status positions will be replaced with cheap AI shortcuts.
If you feel threatened by this global shift, it might be time to level up your skills, "the world won't stop spinning for you" is a lesson I had to learn the hard way.
Don't get me wrong, I hope everyone who's watching this video could get ahead of the AI wave and ride it to leverage on its power, but that won't happen if you don't swim first to catch the rising crest.
It was said on my job as an electrical engineer that the worst tool is the one that's dull. The second one is the one you're not using. (This refers to the mind when you become "dull" by not sharpening your skills and the tools not used by the juniors on the field bc they didn't understand how to use them and/or didn't want to ask for assistance)
but a lot of jobs that require "leveling up your skills" are basically already something AI can do.
@@chaoticviking7679 So much for "learn to code".
Why is the whole Techquickie about my grandparents working in the cotton mills of the UK? That's my family history, why's a Canadian youtube thingy talking about it?
Yes and that is the *POINT*, good!
Short answer: yes
Long answer: it depends
Tl;dr yes, but you should be worried about how many jobs are put into that tech to work and whether or not people in the future can actually get jobs
If the loss of meaningful work incurred by the increased automation translated into decreases in work hours but a maintained living condition (as would be the case in a communal living situation), then there would be no issue with automation. But capitalism can’t allow for that
if technology doesnt replace jobs, whats the point in inventing it?
I love that telephone operators were put out of business by an undertaker who created the automatic switching machine so his competitors wife would lose her job as an operator cause she was diverting all calls to her husbands business and not sharing it between the both of them.
To be fair i think more people are becoming creators and doing their passion since automation has already disrupted the market a lot. but hey we thought self checkout would kill cashiers, but they're still around decades later! at least now it's more rare to see long lines at grocery stores on a normal day.
and now those companies who fired most the cashiers for self pay (to pad their own pockets) are now complaining about record theft like no shit. give people overpriced food, low incomes, self checkouts, bring your own bags, hell half the time I see people with no bags but a cart full of food walking out the door who the hell knows if they paid or not.
@@chaoticviking7679 oh for sure and like then they hire security guards at the door who cost more than a cashier😂.
My grandmother was a computer, that's how she met my grandfather.
One type of job that will never go away is a job having to do with a Trade
It will be a long ways off before we have robots that will be able to replace carpenters, plumbers, electricians, HVAC technicians, welders...
If they ever do, that's when jobs for repairing the robots themselves will start popping up.
If robots repair the robots, then who will repair those robots? At some point, there will need to be human intervention.
yes but you're forgetting that with all the other jobs taken by AI more and more people will fall into road worker, plumber, carpenter which will lead to massive work shortages, constant out pricing, and the fewer jobs in that trade meaning higher cost per job to stay afloat which in turn leads back to out pricing.