Humans Need Not Apply

48 thoughts on “Humans Need Not Apply”

1. Okay so…
   What was the real point of this!?
   I know at the end he kinda says it's to raise awareness about the issue…
   But in my opinion, the higher ups won't do Shit.
   I agree with someone earlier in the comments. We'll most likely slip into a 1984 dystopia where a small upper class controls everything and the rest of us are left to rot.
   A long with this, global warming, and world war 3 just over the horizon… I'm seriously considering that this life may not be worth living.

   If this is all inevitable anyway… Why shouldn't I kill myself? It honestly seems like a better option. At least for me.
   Some people will argue "don't take a permanent solution to a temporary problem" when talking about suicide.
   This? This right here?
   This Shit isn't temporary.
   It's inevitable and Will become the norm in probably less than a decade.
   I'm killing myself at 18. There's no point in it anymore.

2. is this video automated?

3. where are these technologies? its been five years now. are people simply holding on to their jobs? are lobbyists working against it? why are we not living in a utopian future with renewable energy, taxed robots and universal basic income — a place where everyone has more time to educate themselves and stimulate the growth of ideas to build a better future?

4. I'll get concerned when a truck can drive itself through a blizzard and not ditch it. Otherwise I'll still have a job.

5. I think the thing that humans may keep that AI and robotics may never have is coming up with questions that are not logical or intrinsic. And I don't mean spirituality so much as I mean wondering why without having any real understanding of what ever it is. We look at the twinkling dots of light in the sky and wonder why amongst other things. An AI is more likely to quantify what it knows about it with far more accuracy and consistency than us, but it may either never truly ask the question, or it may not spend a lot of effort on a question that has no real relevance to anything.

   In short, I think humans will retain dominance over asking questions that do not necessarily matter or help anything directly, but that is literally how things like AI ever came to be in the first place. We analyzed how we learn and what we feel we need for our purposes and explored and developed tools to make those things happen. Everything an AI will be better at than us comes directly from perhaps the only thing that AI has no use for: Asking questions about things that don't have value or importance to anything but our desire to know more.

6. I already met Baxter. Then all of the other kids with us tried to make his job more difficult.

7. Like maybe you're supposed to be doing right now I lost it haha

8. So communism will be instated?

9. Fuck you all. These bots will never become electricians.

10. Is there any way so that I as a paramedic won't be obsolete? :/

11. 5:%1 lol that's literally the Dutch word for car…

12. I wish someone could make a network connecting all this info. The drawing recognition from QuickDraw, all the info gathered / personality from from bots like Sophia, Backster, all of them! You could have a REAL multipurpose robot.

13. The last Jobs for human:

    -Entrepreneur (by using all this technologies)
    -Investor (by using all this technologies)
    -Programmer ( by programming all this technologies)

    Alternative:

    living in the forest with hunting and fishing, like in the good old days…

14. Our forefathers were lucky. They had to find jobs. We have to invent them.

15. I think one area left out of the AI getting better is that at every single stage of the creation of any AI, humans inadvertently sabotage it with our fallibilities and errors.

    Ever seen a perfect piece of complex code?

    There’s ways to have an AI learn on its own, but literally everything written by a human to have it do that, was littered with thousands of errors.

    Until the AI can self correct those errors created by humans, it’ll have strange and sometimes hideous failures.

    Minor examples related to the video might be things like “flash crashes” in the AIs behind the stock market and the need for a human construct, a “tripwire” to stop the AI and fix those errors.

    Or the self-driving cars plowing into a bicyclist or pedestrian that came from somewhere it wasn’t expecting. That’s just a reflection of the faulty human who programmed the AI to pay more attention to some variables and less to others in a massive amount of continuous input.

    So essential what I’m proposing here is that the AI we create can never completely remove the fallibilities we entrain into it permanently by being its creator.

16. There will almost certainly be a period where things go bad, with a few very rich people and everyone else not able to afford food. After this there are two paths we can take: Money will become worthless and society will collapse, plunging us into a dark age. No one works for free, everyone works to survive, we forget how to operate machinery and start all over by 150 years, while the ultra rich rule with an iron fist. Alternatively, responsible people set up infrastructure for living to be fully automated, making a smooth transition into a post scarcity society where we work to better our selves, explore new worlds, blah blah blah go watch star trek… If I'm being honest I think option A is the way things are going.

17. If human have nothing to do in the future, they are going to learn and learn. If I don't have to do anything, I'll learn everything on this universe

18. I think one of the safest job would be athlete. This is because playing sport is a competiotion, its a show, so maybe a robot team but not only robot team.

19. I'd like to see a video about the economic and social consequences once everything has become automated. We already know Universal Income has failed over here in Europe. What's going to happen when no one has the cash to pay for the products manufactured by the automatons? What's going to happen to the fuel prices when no one is buying petroleum based products? Who's going to pay the electric companies so that they can continue to purchase fuel for energy production? We would literally outcompete ourselves into social and economic collapse.

20. I dont want to sound like an irrational guy letting emotions speak for him, but holy hell im scared of this. I come from Pennsylvania and ive seen our jobs collapse, 'specially in industry and manufacturing. I honestly think really terrible things will happen if humans become obsolete. There must be some solution to this. I dont mean a UBI, I mean stopping it entirely or in part. I know market forces lean towards automation, but there must be a way to negate that. Maybe as automation ramps up human labor will become valuable again due to the new increase in the amount of products and the cheapness, or the fed could impose a tax on robots, so it is cheaper to hire humans. What do yall think bout this?

21. Is it possible to stop automation in part or entirely?

22. There is a field of work that a program cannot run

    the entertainment industry

23. Interesting but what if we ban companies from getting robots instead we as the population buy the robot and rent them out to the companies

24. that was pretty sad

25. While the robots will take all the jobs to supply us with transport / food / clothing we will have to dive in the sea and dig through piles of junk and rubbish to recycle all the resources we used up in the last century

26. so bots that are presidents could exist in the future right?

    woah, thats a scary thought

27. Wow, awesome vid…..I don’t believe programs will replace humans. Stuff will still break and things need to be better. Programs are limited in scope.

28. I wish I'm immortal to see what happened in the future.

29. Ha guess ya robot can't be a horse riding instructor so I'm good

30. We can do more prayers, learn more languages, read more books. Learn how to do Arabic Calligraphy. Art. Whatever we did not have time for when we were busy with jobs and stuff. If we can help the money/economy problem, life would be perfect. Or maybe not and we would be bored from being able to do everything we want? Dunno.

31. Luddism is a good thing. Don't care about HDI.

32. I hope that the bots can make good anime…

33. What about science or math bots?

34. Haha! I caught that audio clipping from
    "Humans used to have to hunt or gather–"
    SNIP
    "To survive.

35. Thinking about maximize the profits, most of the industries won't have people to sell they products, considering that we all will gonna be jobless.

36. I feel pretty safe in my job as a support professional for the mentally disabled.

37. https://youtu.be/L0K6Cb1ZoG4 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNiO2sTe2wo , https://youtu.be/AyenRCJ_4Ww

38. Future looks scary

39. surely we'll reach a point of equilibrium where either a majority of the human population die off or the majority of the robot population dies off. remember someone has to buy this stuff that robots produce and if humans can't afford to live then theres not much point running robots to produce stuff that noone can afford to buy

40. Well thos is going to keep me up all night

41. Universal basic income, even if its secretly guised in giant public work projects that could be easily automated

42. i know that robots will replace Humans some day no matter what but how will human live? humans need money to buy food and Items Can you cover this i think that it is a Good idea. Will Robots Be Paid? so the robots can bring home Money??? i am Worried about this in my future WILL BE BE WIPED OFF THE PLANET SO THEY ARE THE TOP OF THE FOOD CHAIN???????????????????????????? WILL THEY ATTACK US? WILL HUMANS BE KILLED? WILL WE STARVE??? HOW. WILL. WE. SURVIVE…

43. 4:25 Elmer’s glue on his desk

44. *Reaganomics intensifies*

45. So the correct answer is to become a version of Ian M. Banks’ The Culture and invent a bunch of hyperintelligent AI that will effectively keep humanity around as their pets

46. Tbh…. I kinda want to have a self driving car

47. I'd love to see this revisited.

48. This video is the single most important video to watch on YouTube for anyone who expects to be alive for 30+ years.

    (Why 30, why not less? Well think of 30 as a pessimistic view on the progress of technology and implementation rate.)

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