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on the ranking of things to worry about
Skynet coming and taking over doesn't
even rank in the top 10 it distracts
attention from the more urgent things
like for example what's going to happen
to
jobs for a glimpse into the future
consider one of the largest companies on
the planet
Amazon Amazon has tremendous scale we
have fulfillment centers that are as
large as 1.25 million square ft that's
like 23 football fields and in it will
have just millions of products to deal
with that scale Amazon has built an army
of
robots like a marching army of ants that
can constantly change its goals based on
the situation at hand right so our
Robotics are very adaptive and reactive
in order to extend human capability to
allow for more efficiencies within our
own buildings and there's plenty more
where those came from every day this
facility in Boston graduates a new batch
of ma ma all of the robots that you see
that are moving the pods have been built
right here in Boston I call it the
nursery where the robots are born
they'll be built they'll take their
first breath of air they'll do their own
Diagnostics once they're good then
they'll line up for robot graduation and
then they will swing their tassels to
the appropriate side drive themselves
right onto a pallet and go directly to a
fulfillment
center to some of us this moment belies
a dark sign of what's to come a future
that doesn't need us one where all jobs
not just cab drivers and truckers are
taken by machines but Amazon's Chief
roboticist doesn't see it that way the
fact is really plain and simple the more
robots we add to our fulfillment centers
the more jobs we're creating the robots
do not build themselves humans design
them humans build them humans deploy
them humans support them and then humans
most importantly interact with the
robots when you look at that this
enables growth and growth does enable
jobs certainly history would seem to
Bear him out since the Industrial
Revolution new technologies while
displacing some jobs have created new
ones while this is the predominant view
in the AI Community some think it
ignores the reality of today's world
there's a long history of Technology
creators assuming that only good things
would happen with their baby when it
went out into the world even if there
are some new jobs created somewhere the
vast majority of people are not easily
going to be able to shift into them that
truck driver who loses their job to a
driverless truck isn't going to easily
become an app developer out in Silicon
Valley