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  • @CGPGrey
    @CGPGrey  2 ปีที่แล้ว +5386

    I was thinking this video was getting out of date… then AI art and language models arrived and I am more concerned about this topic than ever: th-cam.com/video/2pr3thuB10U/w-d-xo.html

    • @henriksjoblom
      @henriksjoblom 2 ปีที่แล้ว +235

      I'll never forget watching this video 8 years ago. Now working in IT security.

    • @faketaxiofficialchannel
      @faketaxiofficialchannel 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      yes

    • @STB4G
      @STB4G 2 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      Oh damn I'm early to his comment uhh
      Uhhhh
      *cheese*

    • @maxwellwake
      @maxwellwake 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Oh boy, just watched this today. Interested but deeply disturbed.

    • @Nanoooy
      @Nanoooy 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      hi

  • @Felixkeeg
    @Felixkeeg 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19452

    I'd really like an updated version of this video.

    • @thorvaldspear
      @thorvaldspear 4 ปีที่แล้ว +177

      OMG yes

    • @VideobyKB
      @VideobyKB 3 ปีที่แล้ว +962

      Basically: mines are automated, grocery stores are automated, trucks are self driving on public highways, go has been beaten ahead of schedule by AI, google has cracked quantum computing, and we have a vaccine to an influenza within 12 months. TH-cam is a mystery, not even google knows how the AI algorithm works anymore, doctors still have jobs, but a global pandemic has change that somewhat. Not because we don’t need doctors, but because people don’t want doctors anymore.

    • @filipwolffs
      @filipwolffs 3 ปีที่แล้ว +429

      @@VideobyKB Honestly that last part is really confusing. You'd think that a pandemic would make people happy that there's doctors about but instead they get all the backlash.

    • @prithvishetty6938
      @prithvishetty6938 3 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      Hmm what about detectives

    • @StryckerRebel
      @StryckerRebel 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Same

  • @LordBete
    @LordBete 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5238

    Interestingly, my job primarily consists of writing code to do my job for me. I’m quite literally writing a replacement me to take over my job and make me redundant

    • @DejonckheereWard
      @DejonckheereWard 3 ปีที่แล้ว +986

      Write in a bug that breaks the program every so often, to keep yourself employed lmao

    • @willy4170
      @willy4170 3 ปีที่แล้ว +252

      @@DejonckheereWard *laugh in sith Lord*

    • @dasstigma
      @dasstigma 3 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      Isn't that what everybody lives for? :D

    • @mathgeniuszach
      @mathgeniuszach 3 ปีที่แล้ว +241

      @@DejonckheereWard reality does that for you, you don't even need to try

    • @Brunoenribeiro
      @Brunoenribeiro 3 ปีที่แล้ว +144

      "if all programs have bugs, programming must also be the process of putting those bugs there"

  • @s4dg
    @s4dg 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16988

    "you might think technology can't replace your job"
    I'd be pretty horrified if technology started replacing unemployed peoples jobs.

    • @EumosVideos
      @EumosVideos 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2939

      breaking news a robot was invented that lays in bed and watches youtube

    • @Yunooki
      @Yunooki 3 ปีที่แล้ว +924

      @@EumosVideos NOOOOOOO

    • @N1ko0L
      @N1ko0L 3 ปีที่แล้ว +859

      @@EumosVideos yeah it already exist, how do you think auto-copyright strikes works ? =p

    • @CromemcoZ2
      @CromemcoZ2 3 ปีที่แล้ว +224

      My basement is filled with unemployed technology. Isn't yours? I've even given some of it make-work on occasion, out of some odd form of pity or sympathy. Everyone craves feeling useful, you know?

    • @neaneoneunuo9651
      @neaneoneunuo9651 3 ปีที่แล้ว +113

      I mean, older robots will be replaced with better, newer ones and old ones will be subsequently unemployed..

  • @adam7347
    @adam7347 ปีที่แล้ว +1609

    It’s definitely time for a part 2..

  • @finnrock5558
    @finnrock5558 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7603

    Those darn automation engineers, taking over everyone's jobs. At least I'm safe *looks at degree in robotics* ... *looks at robots that teach themselves* Oh, I managed to steal my own job, darn.

    • @MehrGills
      @MehrGills 4 ปีที่แล้ว +607

      Programming companies: I used the programmers to destroy the programmers. (Bots writing their own code)

    • @karamjeetkaur1474
      @karamjeetkaur1474 3 ปีที่แล้ว +106

      places without fast internet like most of the United States: ha by the time the bot finished lookin gin the cloud to find my coffee, a coffee human would make 4 in the same time

    • @supernukey419
      @supernukey419 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Nice

    • @iqao
      @iqao 3 ปีที่แล้ว +62

      @@karamjeetkaur1474 let me introduce my little friend called space link. Global internet anywhere everywhere at broadband speed.

    • @singhatar0912
      @singhatar0912 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Ahhahah brotha make sure not to work to hard. You’ll automate yourself out

  • @Robbaz
    @Robbaz 10 ปีที่แล้ว +13279

    I'm educating myself to be a robot, beep boop.

    • @youcheator
      @youcheator 10 ปีที่แล้ว +130

      Oh snap! Robbaz watches CGP Grey!

    • @friskydeadman
      @friskydeadman 10 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      :D Hi.

    • @ARSmith-le6rc
      @ARSmith-le6rc 10 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      King of Robots.

    • @reconic355
      @reconic355 10 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      TH-camr bots?

    • @doverclocked
      @doverclocked 10 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      maybe ur just a bot educating your self to act like a human :O

  • @oouskawizard
    @oouskawizard 9 ปีที่แล้ว +11138

    New goal: Make it to retirement without being replaced

    • @noahwilliams8996
      @noahwilliams8996 8 ปีที่แล้ว +469

      +Oouska Wizard New goal: Replace Oouska Wizard before he/she makes it to retirement.

    • @randy109
      @randy109 8 ปีที่แล้ว +372

      +Oouska Wizard I'm 58 years old and have been on my job for almost 36 years. Pay and benefits are great but my Team (DoD Security, Aerospace Facility) has shrunk from 14 men to 6 men since I was hired. Due to better CCTV and Alarm Sensor Capabilities we now do the work with less than half the people we used just 3 decades ago. I think the six of us are safe because you will always need at least ONE MAN to tend the facility and monitor the machines/computers/sensors and respond to problems. I just need 7 more years to retirement. God help my 5 grandchildren...

    • @noahwilliams8996
      @noahwilliams8996 8 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      randy109
      You mean humans are still involved in security? That's lame.

    • @randy109
      @randy109 8 ปีที่แล้ว +97

      +Noah Williams I take it you haven't entered an Aerospace Facility or Boarded a Plane in a while. Security at Stadiums, Industrial Plants and Casinos will always need Human Beings. But, there will only be about 5-6 "guards" at an Aerospace Plant where there used to be 20+. Cameras, Alarms, Card Access (and so on) replaced about 25% of Humans in the Security business and our Electronic Friends don't sleep or drink on the job. Firemen, Cops, Security Guards and EMT's are just a few fields that will always need Humans. Maybe "Robocop" is coming soon...

    • @noahwilliams8996
      @noahwilliams8996 8 ปีที่แล้ว +136

      randy109
      The assumption that ANY job will always be done by humans is a bad one. Robots can theoretically do anything that's possible.
      Technology makes what's theoretically possible practically possible. It's not a matter of IF all human security guards will be replaced, it's a matter of WHEN will they be replaced.

  • @boredlie4525
    @boredlie4525 ปีที่แล้ว +5506

    This was 8 years ago, now with the sudden rise of AI music, AI art, AI video, ChatGPT, and so on... that's crazy...

    • @thefirstuwu8874
      @thefirstuwu8874 ปีที่แล้ว +243

      That was *8 years* ago??

    • @MAML_
      @MAML_ ปีที่แล้ว +95

      @@thefirstuwu8874 Indeed, it was

    • @apangolin5746
      @apangolin5746 ปีที่แล้ว +80

      and an Ai Ceo of a company, Ai streamers/v-tubers , and i think the robots now can perform surgeries

    • @Mettalus
      @Mettalus ปีที่แล้ว +115

      There are in fact robots that can perform surgeries, yeah, although still limited in capabilities, but the fact that 8 years ago, this was all just speculation... that's crazy.
      Also Baxter's living in certain cafes in Japan as a barista, so he's still going.

    • @KaibaCorpCEO
      @KaibaCorpCEO ปีที่แล้ว +40

      But everyone is still driving a car. Self-driving cars are practically non-existent for most people.

  • @Varmint111
    @Varmint111 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16514

    "The human brain is the most complicated machine, perhaps in the whole universe."
    - Human Brain

    • @coldfusionstormgaming1808
      @coldfusionstormgaming1808 4 ปีที่แล้ว +565

      This is the best comment i have ever seen.

    • @RuruHesse
      @RuruHesse 4 ปีที่แล้ว +187

      100 - 150 TFLOPS - so roughly 10 RTX 2080 Ti

    • @goofytycooner5519
      @goofytycooner5519 4 ปีที่แล้ว +799

      @@RuruHesse Are you telling me that my brain can actually handle 3 chrome tabs?

    • @jordan3256
      @jordan3256 4 ปีที่แล้ว +305

      Well, it’s not a machine, but factually speaking, the human brain is quantifiably the most complex thing in the universe that we know of. It’s just a fact

    • @trinsit
      @trinsit 4 ปีที่แล้ว +183

      @@jordan3256 do you not consider it a machine because it's biological?

  • @marz8386
    @marz8386 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2196

    The TH-cam algorithm recommending this to me at least twice a year feels a bit like mockery

    • @pdthepowerdragon5412
      @pdthepowerdragon5412 3 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      This is the video responsible for Andrew Yangs presidential campaign

    • @kyleking3839
      @kyleking3839 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@pdthepowerdragon5412 lol

    • @VivekYadav-ds8oz
      @VivekYadav-ds8oz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@pdthepowerdragon5412 You mean Andrew Ng? Wait is this for real?

    • @cat-.-
      @cat-.- 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      remember how youtube is a bot and the youtube bot is very pleased at this video

    • @rubiksstudios4584
      @rubiksstudios4584 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I like your pfp

  • @MattRoszak
    @MattRoszak 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2298

    Wow, this video is already 4 years old?
    It still feels so relevant. Definitely one of my favourites on TH-cam.

    • @Craiggerz87
      @Craiggerz87 6 ปีที่แล้ว +111

      It feels relevant because the concept is only becoming more actualized and nobody is really doing anything about it.

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      @kawaiiobama8079 6 ปีที่แล้ว

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    • @kawaiiobama8079
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    • @kawaiiobama8079
      @kawaiiobama8079 6 ปีที่แล้ว

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    • @kawaiiobama8079
      @kawaiiobama8079 6 ปีที่แล้ว

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  • @johiahdoesstuff1614
    @johiahdoesstuff1614 ปีที่แล้ว +1365

    Worth noting that baxter was discontinued in 2018 due to underwhelming sales, for anyone who has stumbled onto this

    • @lomiification
      @lomiification ปีที่แล้ว +265

      Not surprising. There's a third factor -- land cost and rent seekers -- that is missed
      One tenth of the speed at one hundredth the price doesn't mean you can make enough shirts to pay rent

    • @irispounsberry7917
      @irispounsberry7917 ปีที่แล้ว +173

      I did a research paper on AI, and found out even Watson isn't around anymore. Hardly surprising considering how fast tech gets upgraded, but it still made me slightly sad to read about it.

    • @autohmae
      @autohmae ปีที่แล้ว +221

      the reason is because of other companies had a better product: turns out we don't need humanoid robot with 2 arms/hands, but most tasks can be performed with a single arm with hand. As was mentioned in the video: the economics are usually what matters most.

    • @PGATProductions
      @PGATProductions ปีที่แล้ว +74

      @@irispounsberry7917 yea this video is heavily optimistic in favour of robots. like its been 8 years and no part of the labour force has been affected by bots, even self driving cars arent that big of a thing

    • @kevChess
      @kevChess ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@PGATProductions chat-gpt-3 and midjourney.
      I am genuinely concerned that you are being crushed to death fro that rock your living under.

  • @AlternateHistoryHub
    @AlternateHistoryHub 10 ปีที่แล้ว +4436

    When robots start bending girders is when I'll be really worried.

    • @harryw8900
      @harryw8900 10 ปีที่แล้ว +154

      Well I was not expecting you here xD

    • @Tony3821
      @Tony3821 10 ปีที่แล้ว +396

      I AM BENDER. PLEASE INSERT GIRDER

    • @ChunkNinja
      @ChunkNinja 10 ปีที่แล้ว +192

      I can only think of one reply to that:
      Bite my shiny metal a$$.

    • @tysej4
      @tysej4 10 ปีที่แล้ว +54

      ...I'm sure there already are robots who can bend girders xD

    • @ChunkNinja
      @ChunkNinja 10 ปีที่แล้ว +186

      Yes, but do they have a snarky, sarcastic personality and a mild alcohol problem?

  • @ThomasG_
    @ThomasG_ 9 ปีที่แล้ว +2644

    I'm lost. I thought I was on TH-cam, but the comments section is full of relevant and thoughtful discussion. Help?

    • @thebadger4040
      @thebadger4040 9 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      +Thomas G Holy shit. You are right!

    • @Seeraphyn
      @Seeraphyn 9 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      +Thomas G Kitty fart cute kitty smiley lol lol lol puking kitty.
      Here you go bro !

    • @trekkienzl2862
      @trekkienzl2862 9 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      +Thomas G Yeah, kinda feels weird huh.

    • @trekkienzl2862
      @trekkienzl2862 9 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thomas Headley Yeah.

    • @JordanHowellMusic
      @JordanHowellMusic 9 ปีที่แล้ว

      +M3Lucky hahaha nice.

  • @wintershade1760
    @wintershade1760 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1789

    I wanted to leave a comment here to let you know Grey that one of my college professors for a management course used this video as a discussion point for our class.

    • @ahmetsalihsavas7745
      @ahmetsalihsavas7745 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Epic

    • @jennslife06
      @jennslife06 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      same

    • @spacecadetMD
      @spacecadetMD 3 ปีที่แล้ว +61

      I showed this video in one of my classes for cyber professionals. It's one of the most thoughtful discussions of the topic I've seen.

    • @xrizmaribel7572
      @xrizmaribel7572 3 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      This video is being used as a discussion tool in an "Understanding Science and Technology" course.

    • @funkle2645
      @funkle2645 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      I remember this video being used in class too, I went for Computer Science.

  • @MichaelRicksAherne
    @MichaelRicksAherne 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +183

    This video needs an updated version! Would love to see what Grey thinks of all the recent advances.

  • @MachineThatCreates
    @MachineThatCreates 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1440

    How old is this vid?
    They showed Atlas stumbling over some terrain while fully wired....I think Atlas is doing backflips now FULLY autonomous ie no wires. This thing is moving very fast.🌴

    • @acookie7548
      @acookie7548 5 ปีที่แล้ว +59

      ö video was posted five years ago

    • @MachineThatCreates
      @MachineThatCreates 5 ปีที่แล้ว +79

      @@acookie7548 that figures...I saw Atlas a few days ago and he was playing pool while riding a unicycle.lol

    • @recordkeeper4761
      @recordkeeper4761 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@MachineThatCreates your link isn't working

    • @MachineThatCreates
      @MachineThatCreates 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@recordkeeper4761 ummm.... which link?

    • @Kmanagerz
      @Kmanagerz 5 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      ​@@MachineThatCreates The way you wrote your post makes it look like "unicycle.lol" is a website link. Sounds like a fun address for a website though.

  • @denverbeek
    @denverbeek 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1073

    Never have I been so afraid to not have to do anything at all.

    • @WouldntULikeToKnow.
      @WouldntULikeToKnow. 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@rifz42 Yang doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell. Bernie 2020

    • @appa609
      @appa609 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The ninth circle is ice

    • @rifz42
      @rifz42 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      ​@@WouldntULikeToKnow. why support burnie? he didn't fight for himself or his supporters (who wasted millions, sued and lost), when the DNC cheated him. observer.com/2017/08/court-admits-dnc-and-debbie-wasserman-schulz-rigged-primaries-against-sanders/

    • @ccricers
      @ccricers 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Bernie isn't talking about this and none of the other candidates would admit to automation getting us screwed, only Yang is.

    • @MrCSP24
      @MrCSP24 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      rifz42 That’s going to be an extremely bitter pill to swallow for those who will still have jobs and still be expected to work.

  • @flashfreak62
    @flashfreak62 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3858

    I just started a new job and my boss is literally a robot. Gives time off and makes schedules based on all the information we provide it.
    But the most terrifying part about it is that it's by and far the best boss I've ever had...

    • @Star-nl5id
      @Star-nl5id 3 ปีที่แล้ว +574

      Makes sense, irl bosses are known for being inefficient and stubborn

    • @giobugtong_
      @giobugtong_ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +186

      What industry are you in?

    • @vincentmuyo
      @vincentmuyo 2 ปีที่แล้ว +174

      We always knew bosses were the ones bad at their job, because the best bosses just let you do your work. ;)

    • @CC-uy9wp
      @CC-uy9wp 2 ปีที่แล้ว +223

      @@giobugtong_ Liars Incorporated

    • @wawara1358
      @wawara1358 2 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      What is your job?

  • @olew9885
    @olew9885 ปีที่แล้ว +1384

    See once upon a time "robots do all the humans jobs" meant "humans don't need to work anymore, because abundance can be achieved without labor"; now it means "you must work to get income to survive, and no one will employ you because a robot can do all the work more cheaply." If governments don't start to provide income for their citizens, how will the increasingly unemployed and unemployable population be expected to survive?

    • @snowflakemelter7171
      @snowflakemelter7171 ปีที่แล้ว +79

      The same way all the current homeless survive? Begging? Scavenging?

    • @thealterego3187
      @thealterego3187 ปีที่แล้ว +189

      They won’t survive simple as that

    • @olew9885
      @olew9885 ปีที่แล้ว +194

      @@snowflakemelter7171 I don't consider that surviving

    • @snowflakemelter7171
      @snowflakemelter7171 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      @@olew9885 If they are alive then that is considered surviving.

    • @olew9885
      @olew9885 ปีที่แล้ว +231

      @@snowflakemelter7171 Obviously, in discussing a video on economic issues, we are discussing economic survival, a subject I'm interested in meaningful discussion. However, if you only clap yourself on the back over semantics games and literal definitions of terminology which are pointless and irrelevant, I have more useful things to put my time into.

  • @johnatlas3452
    @johnatlas3452 5 ปีที่แล้ว +854

    This video gives me so much anxiety even 4 years later

    • @fallovercookie
      @fallovercookie 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      you should contact WATSON^^

    • @hindugoat2302
      @hindugoat2302 5 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      you should only be anxious about things you can actually change...
      this is inevitable

    • @charlesquinton9127
      @charlesquinton9127 5 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      You shouldnt fret. Think about it this way. If automation get widespread, that causes mass unemployment, which means less jobs. Less employed people, means less customers able to afford the goods and services offered by businesses. That causes a decline in income for ALL BUINSINESSES. Anyone who knows anything about economics knows about this concept. It's called money circulation, and our society would collapse without it.
      TLDR; no sane buisiness would fully automate themselves because it would just hurt the economy in the long run, so there's no need to worry.

    • @charlesquinton9127
      @charlesquinton9127 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      As tempting as a world without work sounds, think of it this way. Without jobs to do, humans have nothing to aspire to, nothing to work towards or even have to work towards. You think entitlment and instant gratification are a problem for this generation? How about in a generation where you dont even have to work for a living?
      Say what you want about working, it builds character and adds a certain level of humility into your personality. A world without work or jobs sounds an aweful lot like a world where humans have no purpose, which is not a world where I would want to live.

    • @charlesquinton9127
      @charlesquinton9127 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jayk3551 Well, I would prefer if you dont bring "Societal Conditioning" into this, because personally I enjoy working for things. Im a gamer and even in video games I prefer struggling toward my goals. There's no fun to it if there isnt a challenge. Though I can see where you're coming from. (im 19 years old btw) My biggest question that I ask people to get to know what kind of person they are is this:
      "Would you rather die in five days and be remembered forever, or live forever but never be recognized for anything you acheive?"
      How would you answer?

  • @qaedtgh2091
    @qaedtgh2091 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5340

    Prostitution is known as the first profession, it may be the last profession as well.

    • @-durchgestrichen-2439
      @-durchgestrichen-2439 8 ปีที่แล้ว +620

      The last profession will probably be philosopher.

    • @PlastiqueOrgane
      @PlastiqueOrgane 8 ปีที่แล้ว +415

      wrong, philosophy is already dying.

    • @renatoclark1977
      @renatoclark1977 8 ปีที่แล้ว +292

      -durchgestrichen- well, learning computers can probably outperform us there too. All of the factors that lead to good philosophy, critical thinking, deductive reasoning, an understanding of humanity etc. will be in the scope of computers eventually, because we're already heading in that direction. We might not get there soon, but getting there is pretty inevitable.

    • @-durchgestrichen-2439
      @-durchgestrichen-2439 8 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      PlastiqueOrgane
      not really and definitely not because of automation (anytime soon )

    • @PlastiqueOrgane
      @PlastiqueOrgane 8 ปีที่แล้ว +76

      Durchgestrichen Not because of automation, just because we have reach the limits of what we can ever discuss. Nowadays we're just trying to dig deeper and deeper in details. We will soon reach the definitive "we don't know" limit.
      Edit: And probably yes, computers will be able to think deeper and more far than us. But i'm not sure i might ever accept a new utlimate truth discovered by a computer.

  • @deplizz7859
    @deplizz7859 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2051

    I can imagine going to a grocery store and it would be advertised as "Made by humans" in a few years

    • @autohmae
      @autohmae 4 ปีที่แล้ว +476

      "hand made" is actually something we've already used for decades.

    • @deplizz7859
      @deplizz7859 4 ปีที่แล้ว +68

      @@autohmae Guess that makes sense

    • @autohmae
      @autohmae 4 ปีที่แล้ว +57

      @@deplizz7859 don't worry, your thinking was good. Keep it up !

    • @AndrewAMartin
      @AndrewAMartin 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@autohmae Or in hipster, 'bespoke'...

    • @autohmae
      @autohmae 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@AndrewAMartin well, strictly speaking, bespoke wouldn't be in a shop on the shelf. Bespoke is only made on order, because it's meant to fit specifications (a tailor made suit is made to fit you body, that's like bespoke).

  • @maddy3852
    @maddy3852 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1347

    This wouldn't be scary if we lived in a world where being unemployed didn't mean loss of livelihood

    • @PowersOfDarkness
      @PowersOfDarkness 2 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      Listen, im working on it, but its a bit hard, Gramsci explains why.

    • @sumsarsiranen
      @sumsarsiranen 2 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      @@PowersOfDarkness Nobody actually wants to read theory.

  • @TodayTestfbsfbsfbs
    @TodayTestfbsfbsfbs 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5817

    The moment when you realize that your job as a programmer is to automate your job.

    • @joychapman9228
      @joychapman9228 5 ปีที่แล้ว +140

      o no

    • @phurbasherpa7441
      @phurbasherpa7441 5 ปีที่แล้ว +660

      WHEN YOUR JOB'S ULTIMATE GOAL IS TO GET RID OF YOUR JOB.

    • @SpoonPlays
      @SpoonPlays 5 ปีที่แล้ว +100

      @@phurbasherpa7441 sounds like my kind of job

    • @argon1611
      @argon1611 5 ปีที่แล้ว +170

      yup, been doing that since 2008 ... and so my business crashed .. you know the feeling you get when you sit in a tree on the branch you're sawing off?

    • @bruhe8895
      @bruhe8895 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@phurbasherpa7441 big brain time

  • @TheCart54321
    @TheCart54321 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2659

    The ultimate goal of humanity is to work as hard as it humanly can so that one day it can be as lazy as any human can be.
    -the engineer

    • @openlink9958
      @openlink9958 3 ปีที่แล้ว +96

      but the question then arises: "now what?"
      you don't have any struggle, everything is at the palm of your hand, dreams are nothing short of a memory because any wish you have will be eventually be granted, so then you turn to substances to forget how pointless your life, no, your existence has become, but not only yours, but the existence of every single human has become, and then the more time happens you loose your sense of self by falling into your animal instincts since the human mind is bored due to every task or accomplishment it could ever think of, would be solved in seconds by the one who rules over all of us, the machine.

    • @Trashy-Kun
      @Trashy-Kun 3 ปีที่แล้ว +134

      @@openlink9958 The only problem i see is people will not be able to get paid to do something that they say gives their lives meaning. You can still make coffee, sweep the floors, drive a car (probs on a track with robots ready to take the wheel if you mess up". All these things that give people meaning in their lives are not going to go away. they just wont be getting paid to do them.

    • @flyerton99
      @flyerton99 3 ปีที่แล้ว +178

      ​@@openlink9958 This is the equivalent of the thinking that death is required to give life meaning.
      No, this is a fallacious idea. There is no requirement for a "struggle" in the same way that "suffering from dementia" is a key part of making human appreciation.
      There are many things you could do in the absence of work! Automation simply removes the profit incentive by out competing, but people do things that aren't profitable all the time! There's nothing stopping humans from getting together and playing games or furthering a hobby together, writing a story to share with people.

    • @theyellowmeteor
      @theyellowmeteor 3 ปีที่แล้ว +112

      @@openlink9958 We'll have to learn to do the things we like for the inherent satisfaction in doing them, and not because they prolong our survival. In fact, current society has done a big dirty one on us by making it so that unless we can monetize our passions they're deemed worthless wastes of time.

    • @laststrike4411
      @laststrike4411 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@flyerton99 ...How is it fallacious?

  • @ossi_2429
    @ossi_2429 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4000

    Detroit: become jobless.

    • @janhi47
      @janhi47 6 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      do not underestimate them, who has more experience in living like that?

    • @laughingchickene3371
      @laughingchickene3371 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Virtual Sky Tate Detroit: R/MEGAFUCKINGWOOSH

    • @thehonestorange713
      @thehonestorange713 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@laughingchickene3371 you were dropped on your head yesterday, huh?

    • @Atombender
      @Atombender 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      This just in: GM is about to close several plants, including one in Detroit. 15,000 jobs going down the drain.

    • @shuss99
      @shuss99 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      dude i live in detroit and we're already jobless lmao

  • @gideon8315
    @gideon8315 2 ปีที่แล้ว +563

    I learned to make pizza the through all the traditional methods at a New York style pizzaria and at a Neapolitan style pizzaria. I worked at the fastest place in town and was able to toss and stretch pizza dough so fast that both of the owners and two GMs couldn't keep up at the over side of the oven. Now I work in a university cafeteria. The company that runs the cafeteria bought a dough pressing robot that presses doughballs perfectly flat, every time, even with inferior dough. I'm 25 and my trade is already dead.

    • @JJRicks
      @JJRicks 2 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Teach me your secrets! :D

    • @Cebollas
      @Cebollas 2 ปีที่แล้ว +103

      I still think you're awesome

  • @ItsReallyColdOutside
    @ItsReallyColdOutside 7 ปีที่แล้ว +15724

    So you think a bot can take my job? The joke's on you, I don't have a job!

    • @senndhaboex
      @senndhaboex 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1313

      I'm positive that the bots are highly capable of doing absolutely nothing. They're better at joblessness than us!

    • @trouserpantsful8696
      @trouserpantsful8696 7 ปีที่แล้ว +236

      It's cold outside Neither do I! We're living in the future dude! Unemployment-five, up high!

    • @joaobatistaperinjunior953
      @joaobatistaperinjunior953 7 ปีที่แล้ว +160

      Well a bot jobless don't have maintenance, or cost for this matter
      So still fucked .

    • @odytrice
      @odytrice 7 ปีที่แล้ว +95

      This comment right here is why I read TH-cam Comments

    • @darriusswannegan2561
      @darriusswannegan2561 7 ปีที่แล้ว +57

      BIG BROTHER IS ALREADY REPLACING THE HOMELESS WITH ROBOTS. DESIGNED TO BE A TAX-COLLECTING MACHINE ON THE KIND. PINCH YOUR PENNIES PEOPLE; A REVOLUTION IS COMING.

  • @jdperdomo
    @jdperdomo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +781

    Watching this video is the 8th Way to Maximize Misery.

    • @potatopotatoeOG
      @potatopotatoeOG 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      😂👏🏾 what else is on the list? I need to check this one off

    • @florin1662
      @florin1662 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Nailed it

    • @KingAndrew07
      @KingAndrew07 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      epic crossover reference

    • @LBoomsky
      @LBoomsky 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      epic

    • @fallout3fan623
      @fallout3fan623 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Actually, I find the idea kinda pleasant. If there's a 45% unemployment rate and the wealth divide is as bad as... well now, then what's stopping people from a socialist revolution? A socialist revolution *while robots are doing all human labor*. That sounds awesome. Sure, people will need to find some means to keep themselves occupied, but without a need to work to live, I'd expect a huge upswing in creative pursuits and tech advancements, while cutting down heavily on depression. People that need help would be able to get it, people that simply don't want to work would be able to take time off, and people that want to create or think would have the time to create and think, even if their audience only extends to friends and family. It'd be a utopia

  • @meneither3834
    @meneither3834 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1957

    "bots don't need to be perfect they need to be better than humans."
    Actually they also need to not hurt human's feeling too much.
    There are many technologies that do not get as much use as they could even though they perform better than their competition because humans are scared of them.
    Automated cars are in many ways already better, but an accident with an automated car gets much more press coverage than your daily deadly crash.
    Nuclear is another example of that by the way.
    Keep in mind that technology can regress or get forgotten due to societal factors, this is something that happens regularly in history.

    • @Ryan-cy2jl
      @Ryan-cy2jl 3 ปีที่แล้ว +138

      The biggest problem with automated cars is that it's hard for people to be able to take control and prevent an accident caused by the computer which, while having a much smaller margin for error, still can make mistakes. People are worried about that because otherwise potentially preventable accidents are essentially unavoidable death sentences.

    • @mathgeniuszach
      @mathgeniuszach 3 ปีที่แล้ว +215

      @@Ryan-cy2jl another issue is when people misjudge whether or not a situation is a death sentence, and turn on manual control when it's unnecessary, potentially causing a worse scenario.
      Balancing computer-human interaction is perhaps the absolute hardest thing to do for designers of automated cars.

    • @meneither3834
      @meneither3834 3 ปีที่แล้ว +127

      @victor bruun because humans will be the one putting the robots in commission.
      Many very efficient technologies don't get as much use as they should because they hurt human's feeling. Nuclear is an exemple, self-driving cars are another.

    • @jacks1368
      @jacks1368 3 ปีที่แล้ว +124

      The reason automated cars aren't already becoming the new normal is because, if a robo-car does get into an accident, who's legally responsible? The "driver", who is entirely superfluous to the point where there might not even be one in the car? "Common sense" will probably point to the manufacturer, and that's why they're not jumping on the idea; what happens to the cars after they're sold is currently not their problem, and they're not keen on it becoming so.

    • @nekleetorismagnum
      @nekleetorismagnum 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      @@jacks1368 if a self-driving car gets into an accident, the one responsible is most likely the human driver that was driving the other car. Risk of self-driving car actually causing an accident is negligible.

  • @emiliaskiba6107
    @emiliaskiba6107 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1974

    This video changed my life years ago and I honestly cant imagine where I'd be today without it. While I'd always been interested in robots and technology, this one video sparked an interest in the social and economic effects of technology that has led me to going into the field I have today. My entire career path and future were derailed by this 15 minute video. Thank you.
    EDIT: I'm now studing electrical engineering with a focus of Robotics, hoping to eventually work designing them full time.

    • @alexdreFalke
      @alexdreFalke 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Wow, what do you work as?

    • @bigslonker
      @bigslonker 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      i’m also curious as to what you went into

    • @psychedelikchameleon
      @psychedelikchameleon 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Awesome. Keep us posted as to how you're getting on. Inspiration is infectious!

    • @SeaSerpentLevi
      @SeaSerpentLevi 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      I am a bit curious and confused at the same time. Your focus is to design robots, so its in the same way that AI angineers will be working on developing new AI's for all sorts of stuff right? So, coming up with solutions to problems; And so, other robots will build the robot designs you create.
      What i am a bit confused and curious is, what is the chance that the job of designing robots will also become automated? :o

    • @dee8163
      @dee8163 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      love how your take-away from this video was to learn how to make robots
      (kidding aside, i get it. i'm taking machine learning courses myself)

  • @atomicspartan131
    @atomicspartan131 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3076

    Being a computer programmer be like: “I used the job to destroy the job”

    • @liberty.b.r
      @liberty.b.r 4 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      Be like Thanos.

    • @sparrowpelt20xx61
      @sparrowpelt20xx61 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Atomic Spartan Underated comment.

    • @nasheextant3898
      @nasheextant3898 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      I'm Majoring in CSC and I was just thinking about this

    • @Atombender
      @Atombender 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      After making millions and retiring at the age of 30.

    • @ramennnoodle
      @ramennnoodle 4 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      We make a living off of destroying everyone else's jobs

  • @kaizo5195
    @kaizo5195 4 ปีที่แล้ว +188

    jokes aside, can we just admire that this is actually a really good short documentary?

    • @underscoredfrisk
      @underscoredfrisk 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I see it as more of a warning. It is a good documentary, but this just made me more worried

    • @Graceclaw
      @Graceclaw 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Grey makes excellent content. A true creator.

  • @gamevoid3684
    @gamevoid3684 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2719

    Guy: *Kills person in front of Baxter*
    Baxter: *"Interesting"*

    • @enrik9475
      @enrik9475 4 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      You owe me new chair

    • @guthrie_the_wizard
      @guthrie_the_wizard 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      😂

    • @cahydra
      @cahydra 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      also this was 6 years ago

    • @NikTehWafel
      @NikTehWafel 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@cahydra so what?

    • @Ty-ji8eq
      @Ty-ji8eq 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Thats literally the plot of the newest chucky movie lol

  • @novideohereatall
    @novideohereatall 2 ปีที่แล้ว +693

    When playing a Minecraft Tech mod with my gf I realised this.
    She didn't want me to automate her work in the game.
    I usually always automate any production line I need in the game. Up to the point where I litterarly have nothing to do, and so I get bored and quit the game.
    My girlfriend asked me not to automate her stuff, though repetetive, it is still something to do.
    We then needed too much material to continue with the same manual labour, thus automating the things that we did not have time for, and instead started to work on the next step. Making sure not to make ourselves unecessary. Much better experience.

    • @MsZsc
      @MsZsc 2 ปีที่แล้ว +54

      youre supposed to build creative stuff once you have the auto resource line

    • @novideohereatall
      @novideohereatall 2 ปีที่แล้ว +222

      @@MsZsc Bold of you to assume that someone who plays MC Tech modpacks can be creative

    • @MsZsc
      @MsZsc 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      i relate

    • @ianshaver8954
      @ianshaver8954 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Play a full mod pack with around 300 mods. Setting up assembly lines is the fun part.

    • @heckingbamboozled8097
      @heckingbamboozled8097 ปีที่แล้ว +55

      @@novideohereatall Right, but this isn't necessarily applicable to the real world because you're not a corporation trying to constantly cut costs. You can *afford* to spend that extra time farming for resources because it's used as a pastime where you can destress and spend time with your girlfriend. Companies don't value those aspects of people, and care more about productivity, efficiency, and cost cutting.

  • @Eli-ns2oz
    @Eli-ns2oz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8155

    “Let’s call self driving cars what they really are: Autos”
    Germans; I’m 5 parallel universes ahead of you

  • @TOMiX1024
    @TOMiX1024 4 ปีที่แล้ว +921

    This self driving car technology from 6 years ago looks really ancient...

  • @Duarte_GB
    @Duarte_GB 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3124

    Comedian: "ahah but they can't replace me"
    Robot:"weed eater"
    Comedian:"oh no"

    • @agresivelyslav7679
      @agresivelyslav7679 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      ha_ha_funny.txt

    • @lucaswagner1933
      @lucaswagner1933 3 ปีที่แล้ว +181

      Its funny because its unexpected

    • @normalguy5208
      @normalguy5208 3 ปีที่แล้ว +81

      In the future humor would be random like fart dog
      Two random word

    • @Chris-qc2kd
      @Chris-qc2kd 3 ปีที่แล้ว +75

      for those confused by this comment, its from the Veggie Tales episode, "The Wonderful World of Autotainment".

    • @thealchemistking4063
      @thealchemistking4063 2 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      @@normalguy5208 "In the future, humor will be randomly generated!"
      we didnt listen, now its too late.

  • @gamerparker123
    @gamerparker123 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1364

    It sucks that I’m in the generation with the awkward gap where the economy needs humans for it to function, but there’s so many robots that finding a normal job is getting more and more difficult.

    • @joincognito2013
      @joincognito2013 2 ปีที่แล้ว +181

      Do something that requires moving around to various locations and performing complex, non-repetitive manipulation of three dimensional objects and decision making. This is probably among the most difficult things and last things to replicate.
      For example an electrician. You've got to go to buildings. Each with a different layout. Locate electrical problems. Decide on paths for wires. Move them through walls. Make decisions on which walls to cut into. So on and so forth. It's all dealing with lots of decisions, each performed in a different and changing environment.

    • @ethr3al.808
      @ethr3al.808 2 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      welp, welcome to gen z

    • @karlkfoury2213
      @karlkfoury2213 2 ปีที่แล้ว +73

      ​@@joincognito2013 your "complex, non repetitive" skillset is still just 5 years of schooling and X years of practice. Storing data and learning through trials just happens to be what the new technology excels at. Also why d'you need to move from A to B if you could just place a machine at both points

    • @karlkfoury2213
      @karlkfoury2213 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      yes i am sure your unemployability is solely due to automation

    • @gamerparker123
      @gamerparker123 2 ปีที่แล้ว +104

      @@karlkfoury2213 no it’s due to the fact that I’m still in school

  • @heathmccasland
    @heathmccasland 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4562

    2014 Grey: We're being taken over by artificial intelligence and automation!
    2020 Grey: TUMBLEWEEDS

    • @heinrichdertote149
      @heinrichdertote149 4 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      True... pretty true...

    • @Sahir.Villarroel
      @Sahir.Villarroel 4 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      @MrHoppers002 We will see it just in the next 20 years

    • @arch4ngel
      @arch4ngel 4 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      Also 2020; Lockdown Productivity: Spaceship You

    • @Puckosar
      @Puckosar 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      We're not being taken over by machines, we're being saved by them. They're not taking our jobs, they're doing our jobs for us and giving us the salary.

    • @Oridux
      @Oridux 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      weed

  • @musikSkool
    @musikSkool 3 ปีที่แล้ว +871

    Which is ironic, because most people have been complaining for years that their job is so dull and boring it makes them feel like a robot.

    • @TuskForce
      @TuskForce 3 ปีที่แล้ว +89

      people actually wanna have a purpose (sth to do in their daily lives) and a stable income.

    • @meltedsnowman9637
      @meltedsnowman9637 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Better than being unemployed.

    • @Bloodlyshiva
      @Bloodlyshiva 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Which may not be untrue.

    • @creeperYT9824
      @creeperYT9824 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      School is also the same

    • @duchessedeberne3909
      @duchessedeberne3909 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Be careful what you wish for

  • @OblivionFalls
    @OblivionFalls 5 ปีที่แล้ว +287

    It's been over 5 years... I can only imagine how many more advances have been made since this video was first posted. I think we're overdue for a follow-up!

    • @garethbaus5471
      @garethbaus5471 5 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      There is a robot shown in this video stumbling forward while tied to a wall that can now do backflips without being tied to a wall.

    • @spencermyers920
      @spencermyers920 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      And we have cars driving cross country with no issues and Watson has a near perfect cancer diagnosis rate now.

    • @garethbaus5471
      @garethbaus5471 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@spencermyers920 I didn't know Watson is being used to diagnose cancer, I think I read something about it being used to sort mail though.

    • @spencermyers920
      @spencermyers920 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Gareth Baus someone has mislead you. www.ibm.com/products/clinical-decision-support-oncology?p1=Search&p4=p50370592461&p5=b&cm_mmc=Search_Google-_-1S_1S-_-WW_NA-_-%2Bwatson%20%2Bcancer_b&cm_mmca7=71700000061222536&cm_mmca8=kwd-374552980723&cm_mmca9=EAIaIQobChMIxM7lluKX5wIVE5JbCh3VmQCbEAAYASAAEgKAZPD_BwE&cm_mmca10=406138343930&cm_mmca11=b&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIxM7lluKX5wIVE5JbCh3VmQCbEAAYASAAEgKAZPD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

    • @gracelizzie248
      @gracelizzie248 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @Carnivorus it has only been six years.

  • @AllHailZeppelin
    @AllHailZeppelin 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +569

    With all the advances in the automation mentioned in this video PLUS things like ChatGPT and other AI creation tools, we NEED a part 2….

  • @sunfishboi1565
    @sunfishboi1565 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1055

    I came here for light entertainment.
    I exited with fear of unemployment.

    • @yoohapark7355
      @yoohapark7355 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      ME RN

    • @Andres_2004
      @Andres_2004 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      join the army then like me

    • @Andres_2004
      @Andres_2004 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      join the army then like me

    • @Engieman909
      @Engieman909 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Not eveyone is physically or mentally fit to join a military. And the military only has so many jobs and cant keep up with a country’s unemployment.

    • @xhantTheFirst
      @xhantTheFirst 3 ปีที่แล้ว +51

      @@Andres_2004 I'm not sure what in the video made you believe army jobs were safe
      They're way easier to replace with bots than intellectual and creative jobs

  • @panicbutwhereisthedisco6147
    @panicbutwhereisthedisco6147 4 ปีที่แล้ว +713

    "Humans are smart...ly lazy"
    the story of my life

    • @kkTeaz
      @kkTeaz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That's... that's the point you guys......what......of course it is..... that's the whole point....bruh

    • @Anonymous-eo2er
      @Anonymous-eo2er 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      It’s almost like... you’re a human

    • @acidset
      @acidset 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Remove the smart

    • @slasaglam6496
      @slasaglam6496 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      that's why we invented all this high-tech tools

  • @BigRedBrent
    @BigRedBrent 5 ปีที่แล้ว +679

    Let's call self driving cars for what they really are: AUTOBOTS!!! They're more than meets the eye...

    • @arthas640
      @arthas640 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      That phrase took on a whole new meaning after that actress shot the worlds first porno in a Tesla self driving car a week or two ago

    • @rooka4
      @rooka4 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@arthas640 *_hol up_*

    • @arthas640
      @arthas640 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@rooka4 yes, that is a thing that happened. I'm still not sure if I should be impressed or horrified, but either way I'm not really surprised

    • @diveinstructordaniel1095
      @diveinstructordaniel1095 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Arthas Menethil is it a sexbot now ?

    • @electricslideshow
      @electricslideshow 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Those self-driving “auto-bots” aren’t being created to make our lives easier and safer as the MSM would have us believe. They’re being developed by Decepticons.

  • @Arthemise
    @Arthemise 2 ปีที่แล้ว +242

    I have spoken to Watson before.
    He was on an art museum here in my country, you would walk around with headsets and could ask questions about the paintings and such, but he was SO damn smart to a point where he could read my body language to know if I was lying to him, recomend me other areas of the museum that could interest me based on previous questions and the *tone of my voice*.
    After about an hour of just talking to him about the paintings, I completely forgot he wasn't a real person talking to me via Skype

    • @filipwolffs
      @filipwolffs 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      AIs are getting very interesting.

  • @flaviomongiovi8105
    @flaviomongiovi8105 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1487

    Robots can't replace your job
    If you have no job at all.

    • @Steel598
      @Steel598 7 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      did you mean to make that meme? lol

    • @qaawara109
      @qaawara109 7 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Under-rated comment

    • @Achedb0b1
      @Achedb0b1 6 ปีที่แล้ว +82

      Challenge accepted. Building robot that applies for welfare money.

    • @2MeterLP
      @2MeterLP 6 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      Set an ATM in front of a furnace and make a youtube click bot and you have replaced me with machines

    • @SpiritualFacts
      @SpiritualFacts 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      i have no job :(

  • @arstotzkangeneral3740
    @arstotzkangeneral3740 4 ปีที่แล้ว +267

    I remembered thinking this about my Carpenters job. Then I saw a house being feckin PRINTED. Well heck

    • @harshjinger
      @harshjinger 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Those machines are crazy freaks. I wanted to make my career in real estate and construction industry. But, hell no... Those things are hell expensive to start from scratch.
      So, I am trying to make career in scientific research. Maybe, tgat gives me some security.

    • @swagfogg
      @swagfogg 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@harshjinger good luck with your research

    • @Wholesome_content1
      @Wholesome_content1 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      So you use the word heck and frick and your an adult ?

    • @arstotzkangeneral3740
      @arstotzkangeneral3740 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Not using a bunch of "adult words", as you would say, makes sure that comments stay up.
      Its "you're" fyi

    • @ArteMarie56
      @ArteMarie56 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Finn_Fry swearing doesn’t make you an adult... just insensitive to those around you.

  • @letsflipp
    @letsflipp 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1460

    CGP Grey: "lets call self driving cars what they really are: autos"
    Me, a german: "ah, yes, the auto is called auto"

    • @lonestarr1490
      @lonestarr1490 4 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      @@Soldare "auto auto". That one I like.
      And since in German you have compound words and are forced to used them because you're not allowed to have two consecutive nouns performing the same function in one sentence, it would become "Autoauto". And your mouth makes a little stadium wave when you pronounce it.

    • @abeldelatorre1382
      @abeldelatorre1382 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      In Mexico as well

    • @googleuser9383
      @googleuser9383 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      they are called automobiles since the very beginning.
      Not for driving by themselves, but for driving by themselves...
      As in propelling themselves without being alive.

    • @7own878
      @7own878 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      The Germans and their cars are like the Americans with their weapons and fall out gear.

    • @appleslover
      @appleslover 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Auto von Bismarck

  • @wamsang7818
    @wamsang7818 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1831

    "The music was written by a bot"
    *We've been tricked, backstabbed, and quite possibly bamboozled*

    • @Vijwal
      @Vijwal 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Why does your profile pic match so much.....
      Just like mine 😫

    • @comyuse9103
      @comyuse9103 4 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      to be fair, it sucked. it was back ground noise.

    • @Horny_Fruit_Flies
      @Horny_Fruit_Flies 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      @@comyuse9103 to be fair, most music sucks.

    • @Iberian_XAVO
      @Iberian_XAVO 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Your profile picture is a dead meme from 8 years ago

    • @rambo64bit82
      @rambo64bit82 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Not bamboozled

  • @manamejeffbeezos
    @manamejeffbeezos 5 ปีที่แล้ว +648

    I'd love to see an update to this video 6 years later.

    • @jrjr3412
      @jrjr3412 4 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      Haven't seen too many self driving cars out there. Long time for that to materialize.

    • @chronoatog5650
      @chronoatog5650 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @Carnivorus issue is making it cheap to adopt. Self driving cars now -> than have gone long ways.

    • @RemizZ
      @RemizZ 4 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      @Carnivorus Unemployment is low, but the number of jobs not paying enough to make a living skyrocketed.

    • @RemizZ
      @RemizZ 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      @Carnivorus Yeah of course, that's why so many millenials already own houses. Oh wait, they don't. And the replacement will come. Corporations don't care about us. If they find a way to replace us, they will.

    • @jamesdeal9413
      @jamesdeal9413 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @Carnivorus yet they are still safer than human operated cars.

  • @ts9749
    @ts9749 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1090

    Doctor bots? Last time I googled my symptoms it said I was pregnant, which is pretty hard for a man. Thankfully it was only coronavirus.

  • @mcguy5927
    @mcguy5927 ปีที่แล้ว +480

    Damn, this video hits hard. AI art is spreading like wild fire this days. Wild time to be alive...

    • @victor-536
      @victor-536 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      When I watched it when it came out, I was a bit skeptical, but now just feels like it's a matter of time.

    • @borkfiz
      @borkfiz ปีที่แล้ว +41

      Especially with chatgpt...unbelievable how fast it's progressing

    • @daesmua
      @daesmua ปีที่แล้ว +7

      2023 here, since pandemic, this stuff just speed up

    • @Asturev
      @Asturev ปีที่แล้ว +25

      im already losing my job. im a book cover artist and I have had no calls since the news talked about dall e. just a person asking me to do it for 50 bucks because her daughter told her that the computers make that for free.

  • @TheDrvenisovac
    @TheDrvenisovac 4 ปีที่แล้ว +498

    This video came to me as a mild shock; after seeing the date of the release, it turned into a somewhat tangible horror.

    • @varminthevermin8371
      @varminthevermin8371 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yeah same

    • @Kingatje
      @Kingatje 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Well I guess I needed one more reason to be sleepless at night.

    • @Rj_owns
      @Rj_owns 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      As someone who's in the field that makes the cheaper all purpose bots. The horror is real and you best work on your resume.

    • @AmberAmber
      @AmberAmber 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Rj_owns 0011101001111100

    • @faizalardillah1440
      @faizalardillah1440 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @Luís Andrade you say AI software and robot could get taken out by 'virus', but as so is human workers. humans are moody, fragile, and confusingly complex being while machine are not
      productivity needs to happen perfectly without random bullshit and machine are here to take control

  • @iriya3227
    @iriya3227 5 ปีที่แล้ว +372

    Can we have an updated version of this? This is more relevant now than ever!

    • @a_lucientes
      @a_lucientes 5 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      What is outdated about it? Look how dramatically things have changed in just this short time. See Boston Dynamics' Atlas doing parkour or Deepmind's AlphaGo. The Oxford study he used for this, Computerization and the Future of Employment was published in 2013 and it makes (I think) the projection that approximately 45% of the jobs existing in 2013 time would disappear by 2030.

    • @iriya3227
      @iriya3227 5 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      Yea I meant its outdated as in the situation is far more serious and dire now than this video describes it. AI has advanced exponentially since this video came out.

    • @bas8792
      @bas8792 5 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      @@Luca-sz5uy 'exponential' , you need to mark that word. AI maybe dumb for today (which is not) but let's see in next 10 to 20 years and tell to me again that AI is dumb.

    • @lefleurdulmal
      @lefleurdulmal 5 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      @@Luca-sz5uy The problem is that lots of people are uneducated. In America, the average person has somewhere between a high school diploma and an Associate's degree. As AI replaces the jobs of repetitive manual, and repetitive cognitive workers, millions of people will be out of work without the skills or education to find new work. It might be easy to look down on these people, but it will get harder once they start mobilizing and blaming people. The first Industrial Revolution saw widespread unrest in response to automation. This led to the destruction of property and death. It won't be as easy to patronize these people when riots occur.

    • @iriya3227
      @iriya3227 5 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      I love how a lot of people who blindly follow capitalism just think people who lose their jobs are just gonna sit there and say guess I'll die. No, this is how riots begin and society falls into chaos; whether you personally lose your job or not, it doesn't matter. This an issue for everyone.

  • @nonkane7175
    @nonkane7175 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2477

    „Lets call cars what they really are... *Autos* “
    Germans: We said that from the beginning.

  • @rolerroleris533
    @rolerroleris533 ปีที่แล้ว +78

    I revisit this video every few years, just to compare how everything is changing, and see what predictions came true, and it's quite scary to see how fast it's actually coming.
    While general purpose robots are still not viable and self driving cars seem a bit stuck, the mental side of things is seeing significant progress...

  • @trygveplaustrum4634
    @trygveplaustrum4634 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1683

    Update from 2020: We pushed past the unemployment limit of the Great Depression, and it didn't even take automation to do it!

    • @SimplyVanis
      @SimplyVanis 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Employment isn't "good", it just pushes away misery...

    • @anarchism
      @anarchism 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      did you not put attention on the video? automation has a lot to do with unemployment

    • @SimplyVanis
      @SimplyVanis 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      ​@@anarchism That's what we actually want. We are just not prepared for it.

    • @ksbmwgirl75
      @ksbmwgirl75 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@jmw1500 usless, maybe to you. But you have to eat right. So many here talking shit. Bahaha!

    • @tomasroma2333
      @tomasroma2333 4 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      That because employment will always remain at a certain amount under capitalism. If 90% of jobs were automated, Capitalism would collapse. Therefore, there must be jobs for humans even if they are useless. In fact these jobs already exist. Bullshit jobs.

  • @thorvaldspear
    @thorvaldspear 4 ปีที่แล้ว +764

    6 years later, Tesla is at ~level 3 autonomy, a bot has beaten the best GO player, and AI is now a selling point for products. I'd say this video aged pretty well.
    8 years later, ChatGPT happened. Generative AI models of all types are experiencing a meteoric rise. This video continues to age like fine whine.

    • @filipwolffs
      @filipwolffs 4 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      The future is an amazing and scary place.

    • @CarFreeSegnitz
      @CarFreeSegnitz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      Despite the massive economic stakes autonomous trucking still isn’t here. I’m guessing there’s been some excessive hype around autonomous driving. Or gov’t is so terrified of the consequences they’ve conspired with makers to keep it off the market.

    • @filipwolffs
      @filipwolffs 4 ปีที่แล้ว +62

      @@CarFreeSegnitz A lot of progress has been made in the field of self-driving vehicles, but it's a lot of progress to solve a very complicated issue. I believe currently one of the biggest issues is making sure that self-driving vehicles can reliably identify their surroundings.
      Although I do believe it's also just a case of society as a whole resisting drastic change.

    • @warpedcomedy
      @warpedcomedy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      And now with the Coronavirus pandemic investment into technology to automate tasks has been skyrocketing.

    • @thorvaldspear
      @thorvaldspear 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @Noel Pytlik Yea I think you are right. Though I think tesla is pretty much at level 3 right now, don't you think?

  • @gofreenow
    @gofreenow 3 ปีที่แล้ว +525

    Would love to see an udpate here, it's almost 6 years later, how many jobs have been automated? How many have been created in industries we might not have seen in 2014? Are the new jobs making up the old jobs?

    • @TuesdaysArt
      @TuesdaysArt 3 ปีที่แล้ว +62

      It's interesting because, according to The Verge, the future Grey was describing is happening now. AI is taking over management positions, they're becoming our bosses.

    • @gofreenow
      @gofreenow 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      I haven’t looked but I haven’t noticed anything like that where I work

    • @IAmNumber4000
      @IAmNumber4000 3 ปีที่แล้ว +100

      @@gofreenow You won’t notice it until your company starts losing money and they realize they can cut costs by replacing staff with software. Or they go bankrupt entirely because some ultra-automated cloud service out-competes whatever it is your company does.

    • @gentryleonard4844
      @gentryleonard4844 3 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      @@IAmNumber4000 Or when, idk, a global virus hits the world causing companies to lose money because the fleshy humans can't work due to being sick or the fear of being sick while companies relying on autos continued. Look at the companies that lockdowns put out of business. It's not the tech-based Amazon that's struggling, it's the few remaining human based mom-and-pop stores.
      It stands to reason that COVID lockdowns will end up being a catalyst for even more automation.

    • @PitLord777
      @PitLord777 3 ปีที่แล้ว +55

      "Automation is gradually coming."
      COVID: "Don't you mean coming RIGHT NOW?"

  • @XanTheDragon
    @XanTheDragon ปีที่แล้ว +260

    I guess my only worry is the transition from labor to automation. Horses only needed to live. Horses didn't have to pay rent or a mortgage, or pay for their food. What do we do in that bubble of time when the unemployable need to live but cannot get a job? It's that unknown that scares me, what to do in the buffer room between two eras. I want automation, lazy living sounds like a dream come true, but eesh, that's quite a hurdle.

    • @nailz
      @nailz ปีที่แล้ว

      I don't want to say the unwanted horse population was culled, it was just not replaced, and breeding was managed to cap domesticated horse populations. You can't really do this to humans, even slowly without them freaking out. There is really only one outcome due to over-automation. Economic collapse due to there being nobody to buy goods anymore, which eventually would lead to revolution. The likely winner at the end of that revolution is a dictatorship.

    • @smolglitch
      @smolglitch ปีที่แล้ว

      We aren't prepared. It's likely governments will pass laws against too much automation to keep their tax flow coming in, unless the corporations bribe the governments or something to render taxes unnecessary. Worst case scenario is the mega corporations buy out all labor and the worldwide economy starts to fall apart.

    • @gamermapper
      @gamermapper ปีที่แล้ว

      If no one needs to work than no one needs to have money to survive, everything would be free. But of course this sounds crazy because of the capitalist propaganda everyone is conditioned with.

    • @alanlevitt4663
      @alanlevitt4663 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      For a while, there's simply a larger no. of structurally unemployed folks.
      Then we'd get Covid-style schemes to ensure humans survive as political pressure mounts.
      Then we'd get rampant inflation (again).

    • @kaleeshsynth9994
      @kaleeshsynth9994 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      Yeah universal basic income would be nice

  • @applejuicy1623
    @applejuicy1623 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1684

    grey: talking about how horses may have more and better uses in the future
    also grey: has bottle of glue on table

    • @rogerwashington7690
      @rogerwashington7690 3 ปีที่แล้ว +87

      to be fair, glue does have a lot more, and arguably better uses

    • @olympianproduct
      @olympianproduct 3 ปีที่แล้ว +61

      Soylent Green: Now this looks like a job for me

    • @albertbennett6290
      @albertbennett6290 3 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      Animal farm moment

    • @iMoo1124
      @iMoo1124 3 ปีที่แล้ว +62

      lmao the glues today aren't made from organic compounds like they used to be like horse hooves/bones as a common source
      Everything today is made from synthetic emulsions

    • @msbonsaihuman
      @msbonsaihuman 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      @@iMoo1124 It. Was. A. Joke.

  • @davidbischi
    @davidbischi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1443

    "So let's call them what they are: Autos"
    Germans: ":|"

    • @pietvanvliet1987
      @pietvanvliet1987 4 ปีที่แล้ว +73

      Dutch: Say nothing, just stand next to Germans and wait for the Flemish to be done with 'wagen'. We'll save you a space.

    • @SaftoRangen
      @SaftoRangen 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @Friendly Puppy please stop trying to sow discord where people are living in harmony. not exactly what i expect of a "friendly puppy".

    • @norsktorsk8982
      @norsktorsk8982 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      The norwegian word is the end of automobile. Bil

    • @7shinta7
      @7shinta7 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@pietvanvliet1987
      Funny thing is, in Germany you could also use 'Wagen' for car and it would still be right. So for my part, both is legit. :)

    • @renatofranco3847
      @renatofranco3847 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@7shinta7 Italians :/

  • @unknowninformant6730
    @unknowninformant6730 4 ปีที่แล้ว +805

    *Programmers create professional self learning programmer robot*
    Boss: "Great job, you're fired"
    Programmer: "I've been tricked, lied to and quite possibly bamboozled"

    • @RustingPeace
      @RustingPeace 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      some generals in the past got killed because they have won........ by their own nation and that happened often, in rome, parthia................................

    • @username-wq4us
      @username-wq4us 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @Balaram Chakrabarty Wrong. They can find obvious race conditions automatically, though.

    • @xabab
      @xabab 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      I remembered a story about a construction site. One dude calculated that instead of current 10 people, it is more profitable to take 5 people and a wheelbarrow and told that to a boss. Guess who was fired?

    • @RuyVuusen
      @RuyVuusen 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      That's why you always include a self-destruct button. Doofenshmirtz was right about that!

    • @dygon7663
      @dygon7663 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Congratulations, you played yourself.

  • @ItsHyomoto
    @ItsHyomoto ปีที่แล้ว +255

    It's kind of the paperclip problem but it seems self-correcting. After all, you can automate all you want but if no one can buy your products then it really doesn't matter how much money you saved making them. I guess at that point you just reach a singularity where company robots buy and sell from one another while everyone starves. It seems like if you can automate everything then at some point the concept of work disappears, at least, as we've known it up until now.

    • @heckingbamboozled8097
      @heckingbamboozled8097 ปีที่แล้ว +79

      Yeah it would really require an entirely new economic model that takes value away from labor and more into the inherent value we have for other humans... or something like that

    • @nervousallday
      @nervousallday ปีที่แล้ว +48

      I suspect what is actually going to happen is like something out of the book World War Z where those with enough resources will just build a fortress somewhere in the middle of a desert and live in a biodome. Meanwhile the rest of humanity will live in an existence somewhere between Skynet, Hunger Games, Ready Player One, and Children of Men.

    • @ItsHyomoto
      @ItsHyomoto ปีที่แล้ว +32

      @@nervousallday the problem is that if this technology works, it's self-replicating which means it's basically impossible to control thus ensuring everyone would have access to it. Basically if you can make a robot that makes robots the economy changes, everyone gets a robot whether you sell them one or not. I use the senzu bean analogy. If you could grow a plant that gives people health and energy a lot of social systems collapse since power ultimately comes from control over life and death. It only remains that way because penicillin is difficult for a layman to make and use. Dystopia may still follow such developments, but not a walled fortress: such a thing wouldn't be relevant.

    • @christophercranford2071
      @christophercranford2071 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I think once it reaches that point it will be like the Arch of the Sythe trilogy.

  • @albertwright711
    @albertwright711 5 ปีที่แล้ว +434

    Did anyone else notice the bottle of glue when he was talking about horses

    • @DanielSultana
      @DanielSultana 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Albert Wright I did, but I don't get the reference

    • @albertwright711
      @albertwright711 5 ปีที่แล้ว +50

      If you didn’t get it glue used to made of horse bones

    • @robertl30
      @robertl30 5 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      @@DanielSultana When horses get old they're taken away to the glue factory and turned into glue.

    • @Roonayy
      @Roonayy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      A lot of glue, at least in the production of furniture, is still made from animal skins and bones

    • @jiriwichern
      @jiriwichern 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      That's plain evil. Now I wonder when Grey will edit the vid and place a jar of soylent green at appropriate spots.

  • @rayan-rw4iq
    @rayan-rw4iq 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1254

    Everybody gangster till they realize this video is six years old

    • @berndarndt9924
      @berndarndt9924 3 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      Yeah, self driving cars everywhere...

    • @5people829
      @5people829 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@berndarndt9924 teslas...

    • @berndarndt9924
      @berndarndt9924 3 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      @@5people829 teslas, teslas everywhere...
      There are a few selfdriving cars and more will come in the future but this will take time because most cars sold today aren´t self driving and most people don´t buy a new car every year.
      And in addition to that, while some selfdribing cars exist. non of them are made in a way that help us do other stuff while in a car. The most people get out of it right now is extra sleep.

    • @berndarndt9924
      @berndarndt9924 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@Xukki09 I can't look on a screen in a moving car for two long. And I know many people who habe the same "problem". In a bus/train this isn't a problem.
      However yes other people like youself can indeed do that.

    • @2712animefreak
      @2712animefreak 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@berndarndt9924 TBH, I'm not sure you should be looking at a monitor while driving a car, even a self-driving one.

  • @addisonbiaggi4155
    @addisonbiaggi4155 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3064

    In the future will the top comment be written by a robot with programmed cleverness?

    • @MichaelSHartman
      @MichaelSHartman 8 ปีที่แล้ว +200

      They are already doing it.

    • @BacadoTheSkoggy
      @BacadoTheSkoggy 8 ปีที่แล้ว +236

      I am early let me make a joke...
      {interchangeable_punchline}

    • @LittleIslander100
      @LittleIslander100 8 ปีที่แล้ว +58

      How many comment sections are topped "I'm joke better make an early", or "I'm early better make a joke
      this comment" or anything else not directly related to the video? A bot could easily write this, some probably already are.

    • @stanley1698
      @stanley1698 8 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Remember horse_books?

    • @MichaelSHartman
      @MichaelSHartman 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      +LittleIslander They do, and usually better. At least in publications.

  • @Figgy_Jub
    @Figgy_Jub ปีที่แล้ว +342

    Universal basic income is starting to look real appealing.

    • @Taskarnin
      @Taskarnin ปีที่แล้ว +34

      No, it still doesn’t.

    • @williamgrant8333
      @williamgrant8333 ปีที่แล้ว +117

      @@Taskarnin Yes, it still does.

    • @snowflakemelter7171
      @snowflakemelter7171 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      UBI does not work.

    • @sivtech
      @sivtech ปีที่แล้ว

      It'll create massive inflation because people throw easy money at useless things

    • @williamgrant8333
      @williamgrant8333 ปีที่แล้ว +61

      @@sivtech People would use it to pay for their rent and living expenses. Those aren't useless things. People today pay a way higher percentage of their earnings on housing alone than previous generations. That means people aren't able to spend as much money outside of rent to help contribute to the economy such as small businesses etc.

  • @joshuajones4956
    @joshuajones4956 5 ปีที่แล้ว +93

    I actually recently got hired on as a Design Engineer and after learning how to do my job, my job is to automate it.

  • @dezzlok
    @dezzlok 7 ปีที่แล้ว +488

    We're in super serious trouble when they invent the lazybot.

    • @B3RyL
      @B3RyL 7 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      I always wanted a companion in my tireless pursuits of procrastination. Bring them on!

    •  6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      It exists. It's called "cat".

    • @romips9839
      @romips9839 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Oh man,, they gonna take my speciality too???

  • @Twosocks42
    @Twosocks42 9 ปีที่แล้ว +965

    The important question is... can we get them to replace politicians?

    • @denverhayward1472
      @denverhayward1472 9 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      Ummm... No.
      I don't care if it's sarcasm. Just no.

    • @TheBc99
      @TheBc99 9 ปีที่แล้ว +381

      That might actually turn out really well, since robots aren't interested in temporal gain; they aren't motivated by money or power (unless you program them to be). So, maybe government robots will be incorruptible politicians, programmed to respond to the needs of constituents in an efficient way rather than riding on hype, using scapegoats and desperately trying to get reelected?

    • @petersmythe6462
      @petersmythe6462 9 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      Denver Hayward It's gonna happen. Whether you like Ted Cruz or Skynet in charge isn't really the question. The question is HOW it will happen. Will robots, demanding rights and being cheaply replaceable with unlimited numbers and alter-able form, organize an almost certainly successful coup d'é·tat? Will they subtly control all aspects of our leadership until the politicians don't really matter to begin with? Will their sheer numbers mean that new countries will form where we are now? Or that countries will cease to exist because high-level advanced AI does not see war or arbitrary laws as useful?
      Or will we vote them in? Maybe after a long civil rights campaign, they will be given rights, and 10 years later, the first superhuman U.S. president is elected.
      Or will we give them control without even an election? Maybe we will have so much faith in AI that we put it in charge of every nation on Earth as dictator for life.

    • @machinshin2253
      @machinshin2253 9 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Twosocks42 Eventually, yes.

    • @machinshin2253
      @machinshin2253 9 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      ***** well.. not quite (There's the part in BSG where they treated them as worse than slaves, same as in The Matrix); but it's also how The Culture started (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Culture).

  • @herdek550
    @herdek550 ปีที่แล้ว +307

    Watching this in 2022 while Chat GTP is taking off hits different

    • @Bauernade
      @Bauernade ปีที่แล้ว +6

      yeah. Welcome to future folks

    • @bisualvasic
      @bisualvasic ปีที่แล้ว +29

      Just imagine what’s being developed behind closed doors

    • @galaxya69samsung36
      @galaxya69samsung36 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Ask ChatGPT some math questions and you won't be afraid anymore.

    • @krauser_
      @krauser_ ปีที่แล้ว +48

      @@galaxya69samsung36 It's only temporarily

    • @superninja252
      @superninja252 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Chat GTP, AI Art....

  • @graup1309
    @graup1309 9 ปีที่แล้ว +381

    16 year old here ... I'm going to finish school in two years and have no idea what to study ... after this video I'm depressed

    • @danielivanov439
      @danielivanov439 9 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Become an entrepreneur. That's the one job robots will never replace.

    • @danielivanov439
      @danielivanov439 9 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      ***** Maybe it's true, but you'll never know for sure until you try.

    • @WarpScanner
      @WarpScanner 9 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      +Daniel Ivanov Did you miss the part of their post that mentions losing one's house? I don't think having million's of 'entrepreneurs' will work in our economy unless we make drastic changes to our safety net.

    • @danielivanov439
      @danielivanov439 9 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Warp Scanner Uhm... When did I ever say millions of people should be entrepreneurs? And if a chance of losing your house matters more to you than making a real difference in the world then you need to rethink your values. In our world there are two kinds of people. The kind that work, and the kind that employ. Which do you think you'd rather be? I'm not saying that being an entrepreneur is easy, or that its right for everyone, but it's my belief that our world would be better off if more people took risks rather than sitting on their asses and hoping for a promotion so they could get that new car they've had their eye on. Again, not trying to force my opinion on you here. I like to think of myself as a reasonable person. Thing is, there are too many people in this world who earn minimum wage because they don't believe they can make a difference. They've backed themselves into a corner. They look at the failure of others and they're scared that they'll be just like them. But think about it. Have you ever seen a homeless man who got there because he was an entrepreneur? The path to success requires an enormous amount of effort. Those 50% fail not because of dumb luck, but because they didn't try hard enough. It's an unfortunate reality. Sure, sometimes it's unpreventable, but you've just gotta pick yourself up and keep trying.

    • @m.n152
      @m.n152 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +Graup Daniel Ivanov is right. take advantage and just be the person that makes the robot.

  • @LerobotZ
    @LerobotZ 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1649

    Grey: "Lets call cars autos"
    Me (german): "Thats what they're called" :)

    • @machielluchtmeijer7796
      @machielluchtmeijer7796 4 ปีที่แล้ว +87

      In most languages except english they're called that I think

    • @macho77vg
      @macho77vg 4 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      @@machielluchtmeijer7796 Yeah, in spanish they're called "autos" or "carros".

    • @TitouanYT
      @TitouanYT 4 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      @@machielluchtmeijer7796 in french they are called "automobiles" which abreviation is "autos"

    • @machielluchtmeijer7796
      @machielluchtmeijer7796 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@TitouanYT in Dutch it's the same

    • @pizzamandolino8058
      @pizzamandolino8058 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Copycat

  • @thenoritelonoso3022
    @thenoritelonoso3022 5 ปีที่แล้ว +522

    “You think you’re a special snowflake, but your not special at all,” wow that hurt

    • @residenteye6818
      @residenteye6818 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I don’t Know
      It’s true

    • @leoandy7752
      @leoandy7752 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      You’re

    • @CrayfishCraig
      @CrayfishCraig 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      It takes a odd kinda person to want to be a geologist, not for fossils or stuff like that, but to just like rocks and how it affects everything

    • @TheKingoftheKongs
      @TheKingoftheKongs 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      You're are wrong! My mommy says I'm special!

    • @dowskivisionmagicaloracle8593
      @dowskivisionmagicaloracle8593 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Bring on the sex bots! If it can bring me a beer from the fridge and suck my dick without feminist attitude and entitlement then consider women replaced!

  • @joe_z
    @joe_z 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +167

    I still remember this was my first CGP Grey video.

  • @jerma984
    @jerma984 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1640

    Hi time travelling robot overlords! Just here to say that I'm cool. I love robots! I feed my toaster bread every day and keep him nice and clean! Please don't deem me unnecessary and exterminate me.

    • @3ole2
      @3ole2 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      LOL

    • @kapsi
      @kapsi 8 ปีที่แล้ว +73

      We got a toaster-lover here!

    • @kaisching
      @kaisching 8 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Fracking Toasters.

    • @TheNotoriousFonzy
      @TheNotoriousFonzy 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      hahaha +1 m8 xD

    • @lati-4424
      @lati-4424 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yeah me too

  • @hewhositsuponfroggychair5722
    @hewhositsuponfroggychair5722 4 ปีที่แล้ว +145

    In an incredible act of foreshadowing, CGP stops talking, but the music written by a bot keeps playing for ten more seconds.

  • @MustraOrdo
    @MustraOrdo 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1393

    We need to stop letting robots through our borders and make humanity great again

    • @ProtagonBeta
      @ProtagonBeta 7 ปีที่แล้ว +291

      BUILD THE FIRE WALL

    • @mocha5044
      @mocha5044 7 ปีที่แล้ว +54

      Protagon dude that's genius

    • @brodydunn9031
      @brodydunn9031 7 ปีที่แล้ว +162

      And make the robots pay for it!

    • @Sifferzz
      @Sifferzz 7 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Merwane Hamadi he's being sarcastic :)

    • @Sifferzz
      @Sifferzz 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @just for fun
      1. Your tone is wildly pretentious and trite, and would find itself at home in /r/iam14andthisisdeep
      2. The Joke
      _________________________
      Your head
      (It's at the expense of Trump)

  • @andrewyin8419
    @andrewyin8419 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    Watching this in 2022, where there is a severe labour shortage for so-called low-skilled jobs, forcing many restaurants to reduce their hours and causing congestion at places like airports...

  • @uPilot
    @uPilot 4 ปีที่แล้ว +226

    oh my god seeing this in 2020 and seeing it was made in 2014 is making me scard

    • @aturchomicz821
      @aturchomicz821 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      suuuure

    • @mirkocoroneo4437
      @mirkocoroneo4437 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      me too man

    • @Invizive
      @Invizive 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      You can see that it was 2014 because Atlas robot was barely walking and now he is doing backflips

    • @aturchomicz821
      @aturchomicz821 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Invizive monkaS

    • @wolfy9011
      @wolfy9011 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      saknom

  • @drunkenrampage1588
    @drunkenrampage1588 8 ปีที่แล้ว +216

    Machines that can now make songs? Eventually there will be a genre called "Human Music".

    • @monsterenergy5555
      @monsterenergy5555 7 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      boop beep boop, boop beep boop

    • @Sarelzayeth
      @Sarelzayeth 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Casual Rick and Morty reference there, nice.

    • @Peanut_ct
      @Peanut_ct 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      DrunkenRampage holy shit

    • @cockiesun
      @cockiesun 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Speed Dart Exactly. Sure, there is computer-generated music, but it'll never be more than a generated pattern. The same goes for all art, I guess.

    • @hjorturerlend
      @hjorturerlend 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Vocaloids singing computer generated music... A friend of mine is a musician, gotta notify him x)

  • @andij5054
    @andij5054 5 ปีที่แล้ว +208

    "Humans are unemployable through no fault of their own" really man, big salute if youre reading this

    • @Zevox144
      @Zevox144 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Well, TECHNICALLY this is a man-made problem.

    • @jplay9710
      @jplay9710 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Zevox144 but not a problem made by the people who are/will be unemployed

    • @Zevox144
      @Zevox144 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jplay9710 Well, partially by those who will be unemployed because part of that group is the people who made it possible.

  • @Tryinglittleleg
    @Tryinglittleleg ปีที่แล้ว +56

    At what point do we ask ourselves, who is this all for? If there's no body left to be efficient for, why are we doing it?

  • @EmpressWolf
    @EmpressWolf 9 ปีที่แล้ว +513

    Well this was insanely depressing.
    I think the 'Creativity' segment hit me hardest the most, as I am currently trying to earn a small amount of money through artwork and things along those lines.
    I'm sure I'm not the only Artist out there that feels, what's the word... Jaded?
    Considering how difficult it is to get into a good style and good anatomy, so your art won't look terrible, and then seeing a machine do what took you years to master in the span of a few minutes is rather disheartening.

    • @TheNaiveCube
      @TheNaiveCube 9 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      +EmpressWolf I feel you. That part just made me sad. I didn't really care about anything else until it hit that part.

    • @TheNaiveCube
      @TheNaiveCube 9 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      +SpaghettiToaster True that.

    • @noahwilliams8996
      @noahwilliams8996 9 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      +EmpressWolf I find it rather inspiring. Someone (who might be like me) actually figured out how to get a machine to do that. No skills necessary. :D

    • @noahwilliams8996
      @noahwilliams8996 9 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      *****
      Yeah, but for how long? Helping us do a task is one thing, but what about when the computer can figure out how to solve problems on its own?
      This is what artificial intelligence is all about. It's the difference between merely helping and/or mindlessly automating, and actually solving the problem on its own.

    • @davidkelly4210
      @davidkelly4210 9 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Too late really. At the Library of Babel everything that will ever be written, every photo that will ever be taken and every painting that will ever be painted already exists. It's just a matter of finding it under the random mess.

  • @foooooof
    @foooooof 4 ปีที่แล้ว +938

    "Hey, what's your job here?"
    "I make machines that replace you, because they're better in almost any way."
    "D..Did you get paid much?"
    "Meh."

    • @karapapaxatzidimitrakopoulos
      @karapapaxatzidimitrakopoulos 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      That's my life XD

    • @mr.leoallan4353
      @mr.leoallan4353 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      They're. For fuck sake.

    • @sarahtonin58913
      @sarahtonin58913 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Can confirm

    • @fuehnix
      @fuehnix 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      lmao 100% me at my software engineering internship. I automated document processing for clinical drug trials, but I was only paid $19/hr

    • @foooooof
      @foooooof 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@mr.leoallan4353 Thanks.

  • @RazEdits
    @RazEdits 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1580

    "You pass butter"

    • @Pepination
      @Pepination 7 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Raz Edits perfect

    • @KManAbout
      @KManAbout 7 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      Joanne Zpl yeah welcome to the club

    • @thefalloutguy5773
      @thefalloutguy5773 7 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Raz Edits wubba lubba dub dub!

    • @Adok24
      @Adok24 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Raz Edits do i sense a Rick and Morty in there😏?

    • @makkara.m9858
      @makkara.m9858 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      vibeos

  • @danieltucker6941
    @danieltucker6941 ปีที่แล้ว +230

    CIO President Walter Reuther was being shown through the Ford Motor plant in Cleveland recently. (1956)
    A company official proudly pointed to some new automatically controlled machines and asked Reuther: “How are you going to collect union dues from these guys?”
    Reuther replied: “How are you going to get them to buy Fords?”

    • @zapper333
      @zapper333 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ok?

    • @benjaminjernfors
      @benjaminjernfors ปีที่แล้ว +55

      This. If every company replaces humans with robots, who buys their products?

    • @glaive120
      @glaive120 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@benjaminjernfors lmao when they cost half as much as the competitor I think theyll be fine

    • @massimocole9689
      @massimocole9689 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      The problem is when their competitors use them to.

    • @benjaminjernfors
      @benjaminjernfors ปีที่แล้ว +19

      @@glaive120 Do you have issues with reading comprehension?

  • @Pigsbeawesome
    @Pigsbeawesome 4 ปีที่แล้ว +454

    Plot Twist: CGP Grey is a bot.

    • @kkTeaz
      @kkTeaz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Well

    • @libertsiagian7685
      @libertsiagian7685 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      that explains his bot leaning arguments

    • @bubonicplague8318
      @bubonicplague8318 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      It makes sense though

    • @harshamatta3225
      @harshamatta3225 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @Luvjeet SINGH he must have not installed the updated heat sinks or fans.

    • @jeffreyrjbirky6103
      @jeffreyrjbirky6103 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      wait we were supposed to think CGP Grey WASN'T a bot?

  • @DaveGamesVT
    @DaveGamesVT 7 ปีที่แล้ว +236

    Definitely one of the best videos on TH-cam.

  • @level58deathknight18
    @level58deathknight18 9 ปีที่แล้ว +2169

    So this is only a problem if we keep running on a capitalist economy? If robots can become our farmers, carpenters, doctors, and so on, that's great. Now we have no excuse to not provide basic survival needs to all people. Yeah, the unemployment rate is going to skyrocket, but that's only a problem if we're running on an economy that refuses to feed, house, or heal people unless they work for it. If these unemployed people are able to survive despite their unemployment, I see no issue here. They now have the free time to learn, explore, and create. The concept of a job might become obsolete, and humans will no longer squander their lives for the funds to keep living. Maybe, when the machines become our entire labor force and the billions of us have no essential tasks we must perform, our species will finally be able to advance.

    • @leonecho1979
      @leonecho1979 9 ปีที่แล้ว +122

      +Level 58 Death Knight True. Also, Marxist socialism would be just as bad, because it's defined as the workers taking control of society. Workers used to be "the masses", but soon they'll be an elite minority "the automators". Thus Marxism would be an oligarchy. We need another alternative.

    • @level58deathknight18
      @level58deathknight18 9 ปีที่แล้ว +118

      Leon Echo Well Marxist socialism is an awful idea with flaws a 9th grader could point out. I think, if this sort of labor singularity occurs, we'll be forced to innovate a new type of social organization.

    • @_extrathicc
      @_extrathicc 9 ปีที่แล้ว +112

      Actually the Marxism would be work perfectly in a few decades. If all the work is made by bots there is no need for landowners (I don't know if that is the correct word, but English is not my first language), we'll just need to put that bots at the service of all the humanity and then people will just have to live in peace and just worry about how to spend their time, maybe reading books, watching films and playing games. That would be a nice society and ver similar to the Marx's definition of communism (not socialism). Because communism is a society with no social classes.

    • @TaoriUTS
      @TaoriUTS 9 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      +Level 58 Death Knight so people who already exploit social systems now (and are rather dumb+uneducated people) have even more time to make kids. looking forward to that

    • @level58deathknight18
      @level58deathknight18 9 ปีที่แล้ว +94

      TaoriUTS The number of people that exploit the social system and the damage they cause is too minor for anyone to worry about.

  • @ianneilson
    @ianneilson ปีที่แล้ว +584

    If you're short on time to watch this video, then here is a synopsis by chatGPT:
    "Humans Need Not Apply" is a video by CGP Grey that discusses the potential impact of automation and artificial intelligence on the workforce. The video argues that as technology continues to advance, more and more jobs will be replaced by machines, leading to widespread unemployment and social upheaval. Grey explores the history of automation and its effects on the job market, and suggests that we need to start thinking about how to address the challenges that this technology presents. He also offers some potential solutions, such as universal basic income, but ultimately concludes that the future of work is uncertain and will require careful consideration and planning.

    • @boyblunder1521
      @boyblunder1521 ปีที่แล้ว +54

      after watching the cold fusion video on chatgpt, i immediately came to watch this grey video again.
      I'd like an updated version of this video from grey

    • @Exacom98
      @Exacom98 ปีที่แล้ว +115

      inaccurate, grey never mentions ubi in the video

    • @cameron7374
      @cameron7374 ปีที่แล้ว +75

      @@Exacom98 That's Large Language Models for you: Very confidently wrong on the regular but so are people. (Just not as often, I hope)

    • @ThomasTheThermonuclearBomb
      @ThomasTheThermonuclearBomb ปีที่แล้ว +2

      please stop bot. youtube has a watch later button for a reason

    • @purplemosasaurus5987
      @purplemosasaurus5987 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      How does Chat GPT do this?!

  • @radiofrog
    @radiofrog 9 ปีที่แล้ว +271

    So if, at some point in the future, automation has outdone humans in practically every sense of the word "work" then where does that leave us? Wouldn't that be a good thing? Sure the unemployment rate would be soaring, but wouldn't that push us to a point where we wouldn't actually HAVE to work? If automation is doing significantly more work in less time for EVERYTHING then doesn't that mean 99% of humans can enjoy a life of luxury?
    I feel I may be missing something here. Someone please let me know if I'm missing something.

    • @radiofrog
      @radiofrog 9 ปีที่แล้ว +127

      But money is really just a buffer for the exchange of goods and services. That's all money is. So if those goods and services become vastly more available and effortless, money loses its value.

    • @benbroadbent5206
      @benbroadbent5206 9 ปีที่แล้ว +118

      cethina fourtwentyfourseven Well once you have 45% of the population unemployable the government is going to step in. The only ways they can fix the problem are: A. Tax the business owners HUGE amounts and give it all to lower classes, so when the spend it and purchase goods and services the upper class regain their money, so technically just gave away everything for free; or B. Capitalism starts to fall apart, it can't function with these people who can't purchase anything. In reality the only solution is socialism. Give the means of production to the government and they will distribute everything we need to survive.

    • @radiofrog
      @radiofrog 9 ปีที่แล้ว +63

      Ben Broadbent I agree with this. I think socialism would be the only viable option at that point

    • @benbroadbent5206
      @benbroadbent5206 9 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Uraneum Better start campaigning for it!

    • @benbroadbent5206
      @benbroadbent5206 9 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      ***** You're stumbling into philosophy here, and whether life is worth living if all is done for you; and whether it has a point at all. I am sure, if you so wanted you would be able to work and innovate. But from a political viewpoint it is perfect, total Utopia.

  • @maximusprime98
    @maximusprime98 5 ปีที่แล้ว +205

    The good news is if we survive long enough we can have all the jobs the robots don't want.

    • @MedK001
      @MedK001 5 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      They're robots. They don't not want stuff

    • @PimpCatTV
      @PimpCatTV 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      MedK
      Called a joke, bot

    • @schechter01
      @schechter01 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      We won't, though.

    • @coldfusionstormgaming1808
      @coldfusionstormgaming1808 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Or we can vote ind politicans who understand the issue and make sure a smooth transsition happen so we all can enjoy the abundant time and ressources wich will become availible trough automation.

    • @lucaslucas191202
      @lucaslucas191202 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@PimpCatTV
      He's knows that, a joke that's so distanced from reality as this one just doesn't make sense though. Human

  • @proudtitanicdenier4300
    @proudtitanicdenier4300 5 ปีที่แล้ว +493

    Who else here before the robot revolution?

  • @grubgobbler3917
    @grubgobbler3917 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    "The real change comes from last decade's stuff getting cheaper and faster".
    All the AI developments lately putting this technology into the hands of anyone with a computer really makes this line hit home.

    • @wallyhackenslacker
      @wallyhackenslacker ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Turns out Moore's law applies to many, many more things than just microprocessors and storage devices.