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hello I wanted to say artificial
intelligence is coming for all your jobs
so what lately I feel there's more fear
about artificial intelligence or AI that
will replace your jobs
all of our jobs in a very very very very
soon I will eventually lead to a global
mass unemployment I was wondering where
does this fear come from is it the media
that tells us almost on a daily basis
how many jobs have already been lost or
are going to disappear because of robots
are coming some numbers say 50 percents
will be gone by 2030 other numbers say
20 million jobs will be lost in
manufacturing only or is it more because
we read news about artificial
intelligence systems systems that
developed quite quite fast and are
really really good already did it all
start in 2016 when alphago a system an
AI system almost entirely by itself
learned how to play the complex game of
CO and beat one of the best players
listed all in a match four to one
I wanted to know from you right now who
thinks most of our jobs will be gone
within the next 20 years
some who thinks most of our jobs will be
gone within the next 50 years yes more
okay so see a lot of job pessimists also
a lot of job optimists I'm more on the
chopped' optimistic side and here's why
I am on the top domestic side we're
currently in the fourth Industrial
Revolution so they were obviously three
industrial revolutions already the first
and a second focus more on steam and
electricity so it replaced kind of
human muscle power the third Industrial
Revolution was about computers and it
was about automation it further replaced
muscle powers but also started to
replace human brain power so jobs have
come and gone through all throughout all
these industrial revolutions my
grandfather he was a shoemaker
he didn't make shoes he repaired shoes
that was the job of a shoemaker so he
only sold shoes he repaired the shoes
today this job is almost entirely gone
in some areas of the world you cannot
find someone who repairs your shoes
anymore here in Malaysia it was great to
see some people at the roadside still
repair your shoes but I believed IIST
last generation who really does that the
next generation they will this job will
be not there anymore who remembers the
milkman the guys in the lorry who
brought the milk to your doorstep I
don't think that exists today anymore or
elevator operators phone operators jobs
that don't exist today anymore there was
a job what's called the Lamplighter that
was a long time ago the guys who lit the
candles in the streetlights so there was
light in that at a night time with the
electricity invented and also the
lightbulbs invented by Thomas Edison
this job has become entirely obsolete
and some jobs that is also interesting
just have a different meaning today for
example hackers at a time these were the
guys went to the forest with the axe to
cut trees well we know what hackers are
doing today so jobs have gone jobs were
created also for me two more relevant
question today is how fast some jobs
will disappear so let's have a look at
some of these jobs librarians or
cashiers what do you think how long
these shocks will still exist there are
some shop
already very can self checkout I don't
think they will last long in the future
and every debate that we have of course
the taxi driver should not be missing
the taxi drivers first had some
challenges with other inhaling services
like grap
uber lyft but once we have self-driving
autonomous cars who will need a taxi
driver then and recently I come up also
an interesting job a sports referee we
have more and more video assistant
referees in the games if you look at
tennis there is a Hawkeye since many
years existing already I was wondering
why would we still need a human referee
the haka is far more accurate and would
make the game for both players far more
fair but I think enough now for the
negativity and all the jobs that are
gone I think we should look at the other
side too so how many jobs have been
created with every Industrial Revolution
the third one the computers have come so
a lot of jobs were created basically
millions and millions of jobs have been
created before the computers and the
internet was there no one needed a web
designer well no one needed service desk
agent or a server administrator or a
data center specialist no one needed a
mobile app developer a lot of jobs have
been created and if I think about how
many jobs have just been created
recently also that is very impressive
digital marketing specialist for example
we didn't have those jobs so long time
ago
or data analysts data scientists data
engineers maybe over the last five years
and also very interesting drone pilots
yeah there is commercial drone pilots
nowadays that helped in the urban
regions for example to fertilize the
fields that is very interesting but as I
mentioned before the question today is
more
like how sustainable are these jobs for
drone pilots I personally think maybe
not lasting very long soon there will be
fully automated self trying flown of
self flying drones around then they will
take again the job of the commercial
drone pilots some us that is say that
85% of the jobs of the 21st century have
not even been discovered yet that is
highly interesting
what are those jobs that do not exist
yet maybe a treaty footprinting engineer
or maybe soon we need a human technology
integration specialist how about we need
some space pilots I mean there are some
ideas to have people flying to the Mars
maybe it's good to have like human
pilots that are in the space at a time
and for sure also very interesting
alternative energy consultants or
developers maybe some energies have not
even been discovered yet so needs to
discover those and so we need to consult
how and when to use those so you see
quite positive on this area a lot of
jobs will be coming but all of them have
something in common we need certain
skills and when we figure out or think
about which skills are we really needing
living in the future well it is human
skills we should focus on skills that
artificial intelligence or robots cannot
learn so fast not so quickly not in the
near future at least what are those what
are those skills let's say complex
problem-solving that's already
interesting we need interdisciplinary
knowledge critical thinking curiosity
everything that helps us to be more
innovative in the
and also we should not forget all the
people skills especially leadership
skills so shots have come jobs have
spawned it will be the same in the
future - every Industrial Revolution in
the end and that's what we should not
forget help to improve our lives help to
improve the life of humans made our life
work balance a little bit better and in
most cases even made our jobs a little
bit safer I'm convinced a I can do the
very same to us
it will help to improve our work life
balance and I'm happy to see that it
will also help to shorten our our
working time so we have to work less
less hours and less days so let's stay
focused let's learn let's keep on
learning let's keep on learning the
skills that we need and gather knowledge
that we need to fight against that in
the end a I can help us to have a better
life therefore embrace a and don't fear
the Terminator thank you very much
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