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    iRobot, Do You: • Video
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    Baxter with the Power of Intera 3: • Video
    Baxter Research Robot SDK 1.0: • Video
    Baxter the Bartender: • Video
    Online Cash Registers Touch-Screen EPOS System Demonstration: • Online Cash Registers ...
    Self-Service Check in: • Video
    Robot to play Flappy Bird: • Robot to play Flappy Bird
    e-david from University of Konstanz, Germany: vimeo.com/68859229
    Sedasys: www.sedasys.com/
    Empty Car Convoy: • Video
    Clever robots for crops: www.crops-robots.eu/index.php?...
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    Introducing WildCat: • Introducing WildCat
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    This Robot Is Changing How We Cure Diseases: • This Robot Is Changing...
    Jeopardy! - Watson Game 2: • Video
    What Will You Do With Watson?: • Video
    Other Credits
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  • @CGPGrey
    @CGPGrey  ปีที่แล้ว +4165

    I was thinking this video was getting out of date… then AI art and language models arrived and I am more concerned about this topic than ever: th-cam.com/video/2pr3thuB10U/w-d-xo.html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 ปีที่แล้ว +196

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

    • @lentilkahahaha8322
      @lentilkahahaha8322 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      yes

    • @STB4G
      @STB4G ปีที่แล้ว +42

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

    • @maxwellwake
      @maxwellwake ปีที่แล้ว +10

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

    • @Ant3_14
      @Ant3_14 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      You just watched Tesla AI day?

  • @oouskawizard
    @oouskawizard 8 ปีที่แล้ว +9265

    New goal: Make it to retirement without being replaced

    • @noahwilliams8996
      @noahwilliams8996 8 ปีที่แล้ว +444

      +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 +43

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

    • @randy109
      @randy109 8 ปีที่แล้ว +92

      +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 +129

      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.

  • @s4dg
    @s4dg 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13852

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

    • @EumosVideos
      @EumosVideos 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2480

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

    • @Yunooki
      @Yunooki 2 ปีที่แล้ว +783

      @@EumosVideos NOOOOOOO

    • @N1ko0L
      @N1ko0L 2 ปีที่แล้ว +771

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

    • @CromemcoZ2
      @CromemcoZ2 2 ปีที่แล้ว +198

      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 2 ปีที่แล้ว +104

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

  • @boredlie4525
    @boredlie4525 ปีที่แล้ว +3908

    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 +170

      That was *8 years* ago??

    • @MAML_
      @MAML_ ปีที่แล้ว +75

      @@thefirstuwu8874 Indeed, it was

    • @apangolin5746
      @apangolin5746 ปีที่แล้ว +59

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

    • @Mettalus
      @Mettalus ปีที่แล้ว +77

      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 +31

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

  • @adam7347
    @adam7347 ปีที่แล้ว +856

    It’s definitely time for a part 2..

  • @finnrock5558
    @finnrock5558 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5696

    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 3 ปีที่แล้ว +497

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

    • @karamjeetkaur1474
      @karamjeetkaur1474 3 ปีที่แล้ว +84

      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 +7

      Nice

    • @iqao
      @iqao 3 ปีที่แล้ว +53

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

    • @singhatar0912
      @singhatar0912 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

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

  • @Eli-ns2oz
    @Eli-ns2oz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7599

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

  • @maddy3852
    @maddy3852 ปีที่แล้ว +754

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

    • @PowersOfDarkness
      @PowersOfDarkness ปีที่แล้ว +25

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

    • @sumsarsiranen
      @sumsarsiranen ปีที่แล้ว +21

      @@PowersOfDarkness Nobody actually wants to read theory.

  • @olew9885
    @olew9885 ปีที่แล้ว +1024

    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 +61

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

    • @thealterego3187
      @thealterego3187 ปีที่แล้ว +139

      They won’t survive simple as that

    • @olew9885
      @olew9885 ปีที่แล้ว +156

      @@snowflakemelter7171 I don't consider that surviving

    • @snowflakemelter7171
      @snowflakemelter7171 ปีที่แล้ว +33

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

    • @olew9885
      @olew9885 ปีที่แล้ว +170

      @@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.

  • @ossi_2429
    @ossi_2429 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3783

    Detroit: become jobless.

    • @janhi47
      @janhi47 5 ปีที่แล้ว +20

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

    • @laughingchickene3371
      @laughingchickene3371 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Virtual Sky Tate Detroit: R/MEGAFUCKINGWOOSH

    • @thehonestorange713
      @thehonestorange713 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

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

    • @Atombender
      @Atombender 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      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 +5

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

  • @Felixkeeg
    @Felixkeeg 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16181

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

    • @thorvaldspear
      @thorvaldspear 3 ปีที่แล้ว +147

      OMG yes

    • @VideobyKB
      @VideobyKB 3 ปีที่แล้ว +878

      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 +393

      @@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 +37

      Hmm what about detectives

    • @StryckerRebel
      @StryckerRebel 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Same

  • @johiahdoesstuff1614
    @johiahdoesstuff1614 ปีที่แล้ว +985

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

    • @lomiification
      @lomiification ปีที่แล้ว +198

      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 +127

      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 +157

      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 +58

      @@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.

  • @gideon8315
    @gideon8315 ปีที่แล้ว +424

    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 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Teach me your secrets! :D

    • @Cebollas
      @Cebollas ปีที่แล้ว +76

      I still think you're awesome

  • @marz8386
    @marz8386 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1703

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

    • @pdthepowerdragon5412
      @pdthepowerdragon5412 3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      This is the video responsible for Andrew Yangs presidential campaign

    • @kyleking3839
      @kyleking3839 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@pdthepowerdragon5412 lol

    • @VivekYadav-ds8oz
      @VivekYadav-ds8oz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

    • @cat-.-
      @cat-.- 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      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

  • @ItsReallyColdOutside
    @ItsReallyColdOutside 7 ปีที่แล้ว +15160

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

    • @senndhaboex
      @senndhaboex 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1276

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

    • @trouserpantsful8696
      @trouserpantsful8696 6 ปีที่แล้ว +228

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

    • @joaobatistaperinjunior953
      @joaobatistaperinjunior953 6 ปีที่แล้ว +156

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

    • @odytrice
      @odytrice 6 ปีที่แล้ว +92

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

    • @darriusswannegan2561
      @darriusswannegan2561 6 ปีที่แล้ว +55

      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.

  • @gamerparker123
    @gamerparker123 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1259

    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 ปีที่แล้ว +168

      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.

    • @cre4meD_chippies
      @cre4meD_chippies ปีที่แล้ว +27

      welp, welcome to gen z

    • @karlkfoury2213
      @karlkfoury2213 ปีที่แล้ว +68

      ​@@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 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      yes i am sure your unemployability is solely due to automation

    • @gamerparker123
      @gamerparker123 ปีที่แล้ว +93

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

  • @novideohereatall
    @novideohereatall ปีที่แล้ว +603

    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 ปีที่แล้ว +48

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

    • @novideohereatall
      @novideohereatall ปีที่แล้ว +197

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

    • @MsZsc
      @MsZsc ปีที่แล้ว +13

      i relate

    • @ianshaver8954
      @ianshaver8954 ปีที่แล้ว +13

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

    • @heckingbamboozled8097
      @heckingbamboozled8097 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      @@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.

  • @heathmccasland
    @heathmccasland 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4351

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

    • @heinrichdertote149
      @heinrichdertote149 4 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      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 +42

      Also 2020; Lockdown Productivity: Spaceship You

    • @Puckosar
      @Puckosar 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      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

  • @leehayward2854
    @leehayward2854 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1648

    "This video was recommended for you...." *by a 'bot!*

    • @justdanceparadisearchive3888
      @justdanceparadisearchive3888 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      To be fair it would be impossible for a human to do it.

    • @justdanceparadisearchive3888
      @justdanceparadisearchive3888 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@hamham6998 how did your friend find this channel to recommend a video to you? Was it a bot? I'm gonna guess it was a bot.

    • @mystmicro2551
      @mystmicro2551 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      no it wasnt i went onto this channel and found it myself

    • @ClashWithJhakas
      @ClashWithJhakas 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@mystmicro2551 but you found the channel because of bots........

    • @zed_2ed929
      @zed_2ed929 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Ur a bot

  • @emiliaskiba6107
    @emiliaskiba6107 ปีที่แล้ว +1924

    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 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Wow, what do you work as?

    • @bigslonker
      @bigslonker ปีที่แล้ว +10

      i’m also curious as to what you went into

    • @psychedelikchameleon
      @psychedelikchameleon ปีที่แล้ว +8

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

    • @SeaSerpentLevi
      @SeaSerpentLevi ปีที่แล้ว +19

      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 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      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)

  • @MichaelRicksAherne
    @MichaelRicksAherne 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +102

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

  • @Duarte_GB
    @Duarte_GB 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3002

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

    • @agresivelyslav7679
      @agresivelyslav7679 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      ha_ha_funny.txt

    • @lucaswagner1933
      @lucaswagner1933 2 ปีที่แล้ว +168

      Its funny because its unexpected

    • @normalguy5208
      @normalguy5208 2 ปีที่แล้ว +76

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

    • @Chris-qc2kd
      @Chris-qc2kd 2 ปีที่แล้ว +69

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

    • @thealchemistking4063
      @thealchemistking4063 2 ปีที่แล้ว +30

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

  • @Varmint111
    @Varmint111 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15154

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

    • @coldfusionstormgaming1808
      @coldfusionstormgaming1808 4 ปีที่แล้ว +510

      This is the best comment i have ever seen.

    • @RuruHesse
      @RuruHesse 4 ปีที่แล้ว +167

      100 - 150 TFLOPS - so roughly 10 RTX 2080 Ti

    • @goofytycooner5519
      @goofytycooner5519 4 ปีที่แล้ว +740

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

    • @jordan3256
      @jordan3256 4 ปีที่แล้ว +271

      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 +166

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

  • @mcguy5927
    @mcguy5927 ปีที่แล้ว +457

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

    • @victor-536
      @victor-536 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      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 +39

      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 +22

      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.

  • @TodayTestfbsfbsfbs
    @TodayTestfbsfbsfbs 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5514

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

    • @joychapman9228
      @joychapman9228 4 ปีที่แล้ว +138

      o no

    • @albozz_fx
      @albozz_fx 4 ปีที่แล้ว +233

      Big brain time

    • @phurbasherpa7441
      @phurbasherpa7441 4 ปีที่แล้ว +638

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

    • @SpoonPlays
      @SpoonPlays 4 ปีที่แล้ว +97

      @@phurbasherpa7441 sounds like my kind of job

    • @argon1611
      @argon1611 4 ปีที่แล้ว +162

      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?

  • @gamevoid3684
    @gamevoid3684 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2560

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

    • @enrik9475
      @enrik9475 3 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      You owe me new chair

    • @anthonyguthrie4129
      @anthonyguthrie4129 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      😂

    • @cahydra
      @cahydra 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      also this was 6 years ago

    • @NikTehWafel
      @NikTehWafel 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@cahydra so what?

    • @Ty-ji8eq
      @Ty-ji8eq 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Thats literally the plot of the newest chucky movie lol

  • @Arthemise
    @Arthemise ปีที่แล้ว +211

    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 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      AIs are getting very interesting.

  • @XanTheDragon
    @XanTheDragon ปีที่แล้ว +255

    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 +34

      Yeah universal basic income would be nice

  • @qaedtgh2091
    @qaedtgh2091 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5114

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

    • @-durchgestrichen-2439
      @-durchgestrichen-2439 7 ปีที่แล้ว +597

      The last profession will probably be philosopher.

    • @PlastiqueOrgane
      @PlastiqueOrgane 7 ปีที่แล้ว +394

      wrong, philosophy is already dying.

    • @renatoclark1977
      @renatoclark1977 7 ปีที่แล้ว +277

      -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 7 ปีที่แล้ว +40

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

    • @PlastiqueOrgane
      @PlastiqueOrgane 7 ปีที่แล้ว +74

      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.

  • @ThomasG_
    @ThomasG_ 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2519

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

    • @thebadger4040
      @thebadger4040 8 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      +Thomas G Holy shit. You are right!

    • @Seeraphyn
      @Seeraphyn 8 ปีที่แล้ว +22

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

    • @trekkienzl2862
      @trekkienzl2862 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      +Thomas G Yeah, kinda feels weird huh.

    • @trekkienzl2862
      @trekkienzl2862 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thomas Headley Yeah.

    • @JordanHowellMusic
      @JordanHowellMusic 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +M3Lucky hahaha nice.

  • @Figgy_23
    @Figgy_23 ปีที่แล้ว +309

    Universal basic income is starting to look real appealing.

    • @Taskarnin
      @Taskarnin ปีที่แล้ว +29

      No, it still doesn’t.

    • @williamgrant8333
      @williamgrant8333 ปีที่แล้ว +109

      @@Taskarnin Yes, it still does.

    • @snowflakemelter7171
      @snowflakemelter7171 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      UBI does not work.

    • @sivtech
      @sivtech ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @williamgrant8333
      @williamgrant8333 ปีที่แล้ว +50

      @@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.

  • @herdek550
    @herdek550 ปีที่แล้ว +301

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

    • @Bauernade
      @Bauernade ปีที่แล้ว +6

      yeah. Welcome to future folks

    • @bisualvasic
      @bisualvasic ปีที่แล้ว +27

      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 +45

      @@galaxya69samsung36 It's only temporarily

    • @superninja252
      @superninja252 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Chat GTP, AI Art....

  • @atomicspartan131
    @atomicspartan131 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3025

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

    • @liberty.b.r
      @liberty.b.r 4 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      Be like Thanos.

    • @sparrowpelt20xx61
      @sparrowpelt20xx61 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Atomic Spartan Underated comment.

    • @nasheextant3898
      @nasheextant3898 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      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

  • @TheCart54321
    @TheCart54321 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2521

    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 2 ปีที่แล้ว +89

      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 2 ปีที่แล้ว +127

      @@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 2 ปีที่แล้ว +163

      ​@@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 2 ปีที่แล้ว +107

      @@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?

  • @rolerroleris533
    @rolerroleris533 ปีที่แล้ว +69

    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...

  • @ItsHyomoto
    @ItsHyomoto ปีที่แล้ว +242

    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 +76

      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 +45

      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 +29

      @@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.

  • @LordBete
    @LordBete 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4690

    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 +903

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

    • @willy4170
      @willy4170 2 ปีที่แล้ว +238

      @@DejonckheereWard *laugh in sith Lord*

    • @dasstigma
      @dasstigma 2 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      Isn't that what everybody lives for? :D

    • @mathgeniuszach
      @mathgeniuszach 2 ปีที่แล้ว +226

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

    • @Brunoenribeiro
      @Brunoenribeiro 2 ปีที่แล้ว +136

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

  • @deplizz7859
    @deplizz7859 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1869

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

    • @autohmae
      @autohmae 3 ปีที่แล้ว +433

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

    • @deplizz7859
      @deplizz7859 3 ปีที่แล้ว +60

      @@autohmae Guess that makes sense

    • @autohmae
      @autohmae 3 ปีที่แล้ว +53

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

    • @AndrewAMartin
      @AndrewAMartin 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

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

    • @autohmae
      @autohmae 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@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).

  • @danieltucker6941
    @danieltucker6941 ปีที่แล้ว +214

    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 +48

      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 +17

      @@glaive120 Do you have issues with reading comprehension?

  • @joe_z
    @joe_z 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +105

    I still remember this was my first CGP Grey video.

  • @wamsang7818
    @wamsang7818 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1802

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

    • @Vijwal
      @Vijwal 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

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

    • @comyuse9103
      @comyuse9103 3 ปีที่แล้ว +45

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

    • @Horny_Fruit_Flies
      @Horny_Fruit_Flies 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      @@comyuse9103 to be fair, most music sucks.

    • @Iberian49
      @Iberian49 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Your profile picture is a dead meme from 8 years ago

    • @rambo64bit82
      @rambo64bit82 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Not bamboozled

  • @jdperdomo
    @jdperdomo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +745

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

    • @potatopotatoeOG
      @potatopotatoeOG 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

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

    • @florin1662
      @florin1662 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Nailed it

    • @KingAndrew07
      @KingAndrew07 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      epic crossover reference

    • @LBoomsky
      @LBoomsky 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      epic

    • @fallout3fan623
      @fallout3fan623 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      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

  • @ddddddd8955
    @ddddddd8955 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    The worst about this, humans will lose countless jobs for our own creation.. but a small few will continue to profit. Only until they start losing money, will they realize that without humans having jobs.. they will not make money. The saying about how money is evil, is the truest thing. Greed is killing us all.

  • @jokesonyou1253
    @jokesonyou1253 2 ปีที่แล้ว +231

    One lesson of humanity is that human beings can have it the best they ever had and still be the least happy they ever have been.

    • @maltheopia
      @maltheopia ปีที่แล้ว +42

      Cattle raised for slaughter have it way better than cattle decades ago had. It's like no matter how many brushes and flavored feed we give them, they keep whining about abbatoirs.

    • @christianbohm6118
      @christianbohm6118 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Not having a job is hardly the best we ever had.

  • @sunfishboi1565
    @sunfishboi1565 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1009

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

    • @yoohapark7355
      @yoohapark7355 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      ME RN

    • @Andres_2004
      @Andres_2004 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      join the army then like me

    • @Andres_2004
      @Andres_2004 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      join the army then like me

    • @Engieman909
      @Engieman909 2 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 2 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      @@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

  • @rayan-rw4iq
    @rayan-rw4iq 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1153

    Everybody gangster till they realize this video is six years old

    • @berndarndt9924
      @berndarndt9924 3 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      Yeah, self driving cars everywhere...

    • @5people829
      @5people829 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@berndarndt9924 teslas...

    • @berndarndt9924
      @berndarndt9924 3 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      @@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.

  • @AllHailZeppelin
    @AllHailZeppelin 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +70

    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….

  • @grubgobbler3917
    @grubgobbler3917 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    "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.

  • @jerma984
    @jerma984 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1630

    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 +72

      We got a toaster-lover here!

    • @kaisching
      @kaisching 8 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Fracking Toasters.

    • @TheNotoriousFonzy
      @TheNotoriousFonzy 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      hahaha +1 m8 xD

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

      Yeah me too

  • @nonkane7175
    @nonkane7175 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2460

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

  • @andrewyin8419
    @andrewyin8419 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    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...

  • @StevenLandesVO
    @StevenLandesVO ปีที่แล้ว +94

    Hey - CGP Grey - can you do an updated version of this video? Been 8 years. I'd love to see a new version of this reviewing your predictions and the newer advances in automation.

    • @seddryx6477
      @seddryx6477 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      YESA GREAT IDEA

    • @alex6337
      @alex6337 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      After ChatGPT this video just got a lot more terrifying all of a sudden

    • @ian3166
      @ian3166 ปีที่แล้ว

      He made a comment a few months ago and a podcast. Hopefully we see a new more focused video.

    • @Thomas-yo2zu
      @Thomas-yo2zu ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Why would he? A bot is going to do it soon anyway.

  • @letsflipp
    @letsflipp 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1428

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

    • @lonestarr1490
      @lonestarr1490 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      @@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 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      In Mexico as well

    • @googleuser9383
      @googleuser9383 3 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 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

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

    • @appleslover
      @appleslover 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Auto von Bismarck

  • @trygveplaustrum4634
    @trygveplaustrum4634 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1652

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

    • @jmw1500
      @jmw1500 3 ปีที่แล้ว +79

      A lot of it was automation though. I had no idea so many people worked in restaurants before this pandemic. Talk about a useless labor pool.

    • @SimplyVanis
      @SimplyVanis 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

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

    • @anarchism
      @anarchism 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

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

    • @SimplyVanis
      @SimplyVanis 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

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

    • @ksbmwgirl75
      @ksbmwgirl75 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

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

  • @vanfisher3613
    @vanfisher3613 ปีที่แล้ว +123

    Grey it’s 2023, I’m a journalist and I’m worried about AI taking my job in the next decade. You were too right. Chat GPT and DALL-E are terrifying.

    • @KaibaCorpCEO
      @KaibaCorpCEO ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Don't be terrified until you see a Taco Bell where robots are making tacos or a DMV that has few teenagers taking driver's tests because self-driving cars would exist.
      I am not afraid of a robot that cannot make a taco or even turn a doorknob.

    • @georgebrantley776
      @georgebrantley776 ปีที่แล้ว +50

      ​@@KaibaCorpCEO Robots can already make tacos and turn door knows. It's not a technological problem, but an economical one.

    • @Y0UT0PIA
      @Y0UT0PIA ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Try 'within the year'

  • @videoslice2683
    @videoslice2683 ปีที่แล้ว +252

    I would LOVE to see grey revisit this now with AI. When I started in video editing it took a team of 5 or 6 people to do what I'm doing on my own today (and I'm outputting 5x the content at much higher quality) and alot of the gained effeciency is due to AI. Self driving cars aren't where grey predicted they'd be, but they're still coming. And the general purpose robots are here, but they're more software than hardware.

    • @lb9024
      @lb9024 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      I believe this is temporary. Robotics right now has not been integrated alongside AI, since both fields are in their early stages of development. But the day it happens, there will be robots with an amazing level of autonomy.

  • @Robbaz
    @Robbaz 9 ปีที่แล้ว +12868

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

    • @youcheator
      @youcheator 9 ปีที่แล้ว +129

      Oh snap! Robbaz watches CGP Grey!

    • @friskydeadman
      @friskydeadman 9 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      :D Hi.

    • @ARSmith-le6rc
      @ARSmith-le6rc 9 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      King of Robots.

    • @reconic355
      @reconic355 9 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      TH-camr bots?

    • @doverclocked
      @doverclocked 9 ปีที่แล้ว +12

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

  • @Deeznuttiesssss
    @Deeznuttiesssss 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3104

    this just broke every student currently studying for their dream job's dreams

    • @MOMOFCJ6
      @MOMOFCJ6 2 ปีที่แล้ว +127

      @@mrteco4236 me and da bois sellin dirt for a markup

    • @moehassan5590
      @moehassan5590 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      yes indeed...

    • @yoohapark7355
      @yoohapark7355 2 ปีที่แล้ว +59

      im literally doing college apps rn wtf

    • @Deeznuttiesssss
      @Deeznuttiesssss 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@yoohapark7355 yikes

    • @amalbackerfysal9292
      @amalbackerfysal9292 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Ah indian
      lemme guess dream job: something artistic
      parent-forcing-job: engineer or doctor

  • @christophersimms9128
    @christophersimms9128 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    So, when are you going to make an updated version of this video?

  • @douglasabp
    @douglasabp 2 ปีที่แล้ว +113

    this video reminds me of this "Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should."

  • @flashfreak62
    @flashfreak62 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3785

    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 2 ปีที่แล้ว +560

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

    • @giobugtong6293
      @giobugtong6293 2 ปีที่แล้ว +181

      What industry are you in?

    • @vincentmuyo
      @vincentmuyo 2 ปีที่แล้ว +166

      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 +213

      @@giobugtong6293 Liars Incorporated

    • @wawara1358
      @wawara1358 2 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      What is your job?

  • @LerobotZ
    @LerobotZ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1648

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

    • @machielluchtmeijer7796
      @machielluchtmeijer7796 3 ปีที่แล้ว +87

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

    • @macho77vg
      @macho77vg 3 ปีที่แล้ว +48

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

    • @TitouanYT
      @TitouanYT 3 ปีที่แล้ว +39

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

    • @machielluchtmeijer7796
      @machielluchtmeijer7796 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@TitouanYT in Dutch it's the same

    • @pizzamandolino8058
      @pizzamandolino8058 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Copycat

  • @MrChad69420
    @MrChad69420 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +66

    damn predicted the future

  • @Tryinglittleleg
    @Tryinglittleleg ปีที่แล้ว +47

    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?

  • @panicbutwhereisthedisco6147
    @panicbutwhereisthedisco6147 3 ปีที่แล้ว +699

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

    • @user-kx8pu6ys5i
      @user-kx8pu6ys5i 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

  • @level58deathknight18
    @level58deathknight18 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2154

    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 8 ปีที่แล้ว +120

      +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 8 ปีที่แล้ว +117

      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 8 ปีที่แล้ว +110

      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 8 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      +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 8 ปีที่แล้ว +93

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

  • @blumoogle2901
    @blumoogle2901 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    Rewatching this video, you can already see some of the side effects of automation, where the lowest level of employees are replaced, and some of the old workers becoming robot supervisors and some aren't replaced once they quit. But the unintended side effect of cutting the bottom of the pyramid off, is that suddenly you need fewer managers for the new fewer supervisors, but you also need fewer bathrooms for them, smaller canteens, fewer security guards to watch them and they produce less paperwork so you need fewer admin staff, fewer outside contractors like plumbers, less furniture, etc... The angle of the pyramid stays the same, so for every layer that gets cut off the bottom, you cut off a layer of support staff from the side.
    Unfortunately, suddenly staff are becoming ever more multifunctional and generalist because the total number of tasks are shrinking, and whoever stays the longest gets more and more time spent on training.

  • @x4c
    @x4c ปีที่แล้ว +21

    I think it's time to revisit and update this @CGPGRey!

  • @Twosocks42
    @Twosocks42 9 ปีที่แล้ว +958

    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 +379

      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 +33

      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).

  • @addisonbiaggi4155
    @addisonbiaggi4155 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3064

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

    • @MichaelSHartman
      @MichaelSHartman 8 ปีที่แล้ว +198

      They are already doing it.

    • @BacadoTheSkoggy
      @BacadoTheSkoggy 8 ปีที่แล้ว +237

      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.

  • @alexandercolefield9523
    @alexandercolefield9523 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    A decade in and the predictions on mechanical general purpose ai is off but ai minds is on point. We can't really automate a burger king worker but we can automate an artist.

    • @lomiification
      @lomiification ปีที่แล้ว +7

      It turns out, the more creative aspects are easier to automate than the more mundane ones. They're still computers that need very specialized input and produce very specialized output, and a burger king worker does tons of poorly specified work because we don't need to be told in detail which fingers need to be used to hold the spatula for each task involving a spatula.

    • @ecMathGeek
      @ecMathGeek ปีที่แล้ว +11

      It would be very easy to automate a burger king worker's job. The problem is most likely the cost and probably legal/social complications of actually implementing the system.

    • @ultimatecorgi3392
      @ultimatecorgi3392 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Distressingly enough, a test automated McDonalds just opened in Dallas. (6JAN2023.)

    • @randyjones3050
      @randyjones3050 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      You don't automate the worker, you automate the process. The Burger King kitchen just needs to be redesigned as an automated assembly line. Most fast food workers will likely be eliminated within the next decade. The speed of the replacement is only limited by the cost of the building upgrades and how quickly it can be done.

  • @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 +113

      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

    • @HarambaeXelonmuskfans
      @HarambaeXelonmuskfans ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@ThomasTheThermonuclearBomb Hah, like anyones ever used it before

  • @musikSkool
    @musikSkool 3 ปีที่แล้ว +828

    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 +82

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

    • @meltedsnowman9637
      @meltedsnowman9637 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Better than being unemployed.

    • @Bloodlyshiva
      @Bloodlyshiva 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Which may not be untrue.

    • @creeperYT9824
      @creeperYT9824 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      School is also the same

    • @duchessedeberne3909
      @duchessedeberne3909 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Be careful what you wish for

  • @wintershade1760
    @wintershade1760 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1758

    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 +58

      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 +29

      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.

  • @13lackout360
    @13lackout360 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    Business owners might think they are being smart by hiring only robots and saving labor costs, until they wonder why no one is buying goods or services because no living human has a job and robots don’t buy things for themselves.

  • @tacitozetticci9308
    @tacitozetticci9308 ปีที่แล้ว +59

    Now it's getting crazier every week

  • @flaviomongiovi8105
    @flaviomongiovi8105 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1478

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

    • @Steel598
      @Steel598 6 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      did you mean to make that meme? lol

    • @qaawara109
      @qaawara109 6 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 :(

  • @unknowninformant6730
    @unknowninformant6730 3 ปีที่แล้ว +795

    *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 +14

      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 +22

      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 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Congratulations, you played yourself.

  • @user-ok3dy5su8s
    @user-ok3dy5su8s 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    This video is educational for everyone.

  • @MrXerak
    @MrXerak ปีที่แล้ว +50

    Worked in automation for a year. Felt like I was building the gun that is going to be used to kill my job.

  • @denverbeek
    @denverbeek 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1015

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

    • @WouldntULikeToKnow.
      @WouldntULikeToKnow. 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

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

    • @appa609
      @appa609 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The ninth circle is ice

    • @rifz42
      @rifz42 4 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 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      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.

  • @AlternateHistoryHub
    @AlternateHistoryHub 9 ปีที่แล้ว +4324

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

    • @harryw8900
      @harryw8900 9 ปีที่แล้ว +150

      Well I was not expecting you here xD

    • @Tony3821
      @Tony3821 9 ปีที่แล้ว +386

      I AM BENDER. PLEASE INSERT GIRDER

    • @ChunkNinja
      @ChunkNinja 9 ปีที่แล้ว +194

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

    • @tysej4
      @tysej4 9 ปีที่แล้ว +53

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

    • @ChunkNinja
      @ChunkNinja 9 ปีที่แล้ว +178

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

  • @jordanw2741
    @jordanw2741 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    I watch this video on a nearly annual basis. Really nice touch point to see how things have changed since 2014.

  • @ferdikeune9066
    @ferdikeune9066 ปีที่แล้ว

    One of the best videos I have ever seen on TH-cam targeting the transformation socialites have to make due to Automation!! Great Work!!!

  • @davidbischi
    @davidbischi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1444

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

    • @pietvanvliet1987
      @pietvanvliet1987 4 ปีที่แล้ว +74

      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 :/

  • @johnatlas3452
    @johnatlas3452 5 ปีที่แล้ว +834

    This video gives me so much anxiety even 4 years later

    • @fallovercookie
      @fallovercookie 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      you should contact WATSON^^

    • @hindugoat2302
      @hindugoat2302 5 ปีที่แล้ว +23

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

    • @charlesquinton9127
      @charlesquinton9127 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      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?

  • @somerandomdude3729
    @somerandomdude3729 ปีที่แล้ว +72

    A wise man once told me, "Technology is progressing faster than we can comprehend it."
    Too true in so many different levels.

  • @richardinfante-hernandez7866
    @richardinfante-hernandez7866 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    It’s hard to see solutions to this problem that is coming our way rather quickly and dangerously and just mostly being ignored by the people who’s positions are to help us be ok! I’m curious though to what you guys think is a helpful solution to this? Like what do you guys think is a path that we can change to go into a reality where this isn’t devastating. As in for example a general yearly income for every person thus making “Work” more of a hobby then a necessity. What do you guys think?

    • @lomiification
      @lomiification ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I don't think it's a problem that will need solving over time.
      Instead, declining birth rates will be matched by fewer human jobs available. This instead solves problems that we do have, like scaling up the number of court cases that are heard to match the demand for them

    • @maltheopia
      @maltheopia ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@lomiification "I don't think it's a problem that will need solving over time." - How fast do you think our population is going to decline?? 50 years from now, how many individuals, humans or otherwise, do you think this planet will have?

  • @meneither3834
    @meneither3834 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1942

    "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 2 ปีที่แล้ว +136

      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 2 ปีที่แล้ว +214

      @@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 2 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 2 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.

    • @neclitorismagnum
      @neclitorismagnum 2 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      @@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.

  • @MattRoszak
    @MattRoszak 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2255

    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 +110

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

    • @kawaiiobama8079
      @kawaiiobama8079 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Craiggerz87 nvnokgbo.znvvno
      Puhl.nt

    • @kawaiiobama8079
      @kawaiiobama8079 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Craiggerz87 liebe ujvokvgn.j koojoogl Union l hi GMT gute und hoffentlich ggnlnv min minority m

    • @kawaiiobama8079
      @kawaiiobama8079 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Craiggerz87 PN nkg komm NB voll vbbbv VB vbbbv Kl gbkn tgvzvnp uptl m v

    • @kawaiiobama8079
      @kawaiiobama8079 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Craiggerz87 noch lggnugggg und ng g guczngvp

  • @JamesOKeefe-US
    @JamesOKeefe-US ปีที่แล้ว +46

    Wow. This aged remarkably well. Welcome to the USAi.

  • @mehr_Sozialismus_wagen
    @mehr_Sozialismus_wagen ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Duuuuuuude I thought this video is from 2022....either my joint hits toooooo hard or this video is from 2014! Man you are great!

  • @MustraOrdo
    @MustraOrdo 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1374

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

    • @ProtagonBeta
      @ProtagonBeta 7 ปีที่แล้ว +288

      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)

  • @agvulpine
    @agvulpine 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2713

    6 years later. Everybody's stuck at home "earning a paycheck" by mail as they sit and watch Netflix all day. The future is now!

    • @anasamrani5221
      @anasamrani5221 4 ปีที่แล้ว +153

      Humans: imagine future dominated my automation
      A random pandemic : heeey guess what really happened

    • @daurham
      @daurham 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Ppl gunna be hurting homie

    • @agvulpine
      @agvulpine 4 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      @@daurham not so. robots got my back. XJ-97723's paycheck gets deposited to my checking account.

    • @asdasd-ty9se
      @asdasd-ty9se 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Five

    • @off_Planet
      @off_Planet 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @Viktor Birkeland that's not how any of this works

  • @emmalicious17
    @emmalicious17 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    We need a part 2 of this video.

  • @TheKasimkage
    @TheKasimkage ปีที่แล้ว +10

    This video inspired my dissertation. Got a distinction on it too. Thank you CGP Grey.

  • @ts9749
    @ts9749 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1080

    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.

  • @MachineThatCreates
    @MachineThatCreates 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1416

    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 4 ปีที่แล้ว +58

      ö video was posted five years ago

    • @MachineThatCreates
      @MachineThatCreates 4 ปีที่แล้ว +76

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

    • @recordkeeper4761
      @recordkeeper4761 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@MachineThatCreates your link isn't working

    • @MachineThatCreates
      @MachineThatCreates 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@recordkeeper4761 ummm.... which link?

    • @Kmanagerz
      @Kmanagerz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      ​@@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.

  • @jeffgoin
    @jeffgoin ปีที่แล้ว

    GREAT video. And we *DO* need to be thinking about it. Watching trends. Planning. But one encouraging observation is that we continue to find new places for successively replaced labor. For example, people may CHOOSE restaurants with human servers long after robot servers have become available.

  • @simonthibodeau7082
    @simonthibodeau7082 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Still my favorite video CGP Grey ever made. All the more true today, he should make an updated version of it.