Will there be a ‘last job on earth’ ?
Lucien Engelen
Health(care) strategy & digital transformation Maven. International Ambassador Nursing Innovation. (im)Patient. International keynote speaker. Makes things happen.
Just for a minute or two imagine you are the last person in the world to have a job, since all the other ones have been taken by computers, algoritmes and robots.
Scary eh ? Paul Mason wrote a great piece in the post work era in the Guardian. And Marshall Brain about the “Manna” (as in manager) from Burger-G, where the Manna is telling the employees what to do by their earphones, literally.
Is there really a time coming up where “Humans need not apply”
Or the TED talk of The economist Andrew McAfee thinks through what future jobs might look like, and how to educate coming generations to hold them. where in his far-seeing in his TED talk in 2013.
Also AI (artificial intelligence) systems increasingly are entering our society. For instance in health(care) like the Emotional AI system TESS of X2ai (disclosure we are running a pilot with it and i’m advising them). Creating a way to support you throughout the day, or only when you feel like it. Having a ‘buddy’ near might prove to be of great value.
The question however is how jobs will look like in 2025? A great report by the Pew Internet tries to shed some light this.
And in Vulcan’s post 10 new jobs that wil exist in 2050 are being featured like “simulation engineer” or “space tour guide”. Maybe some of this is to come true soon.
Meanwhile Prof Vanesse Evers talked about the rise of social robotics at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
The above will be one of the topics in OurFutureHealth conference, May 26th 2016. Application for tickets has just been opened.
Update Febr 24th : new video surfaced of Boston Dynamic robots now taking a walk outside in the snow and autonomously and doing difficult task.
Speaking of that, can I show you a business model where you don't have to invest any money? :)
Assistant Professor at Middle Technical University / College of Health & Medical Technologies
9 年I don't think that jobs will disappear gradually while technology is making a huge progress in developing programmed robots and machines to do many tasks that were once assigned to human workers. See that is why there are third world countries who can't have access to the technology like the first world countries. There will be high demand for human workers in future.
Digital Artist of Some Reknown
9 年Robots don't have a sense of humour. Therefore there'll always be comedians.
Independent Business & Strategy Advisor
9 年If we assume learning by machines to eventually outpace humanity exponentially, then 8 year old AI-lan is going to grow up fast over the next few year, there are still a few formation (thus preparation) years left/ahead. I note this not from my own expertise in the matter (which is limited), but by following and learning from the increasing number of discussions on this topic by people who know their stuff, or not. My hypothesis: there will be/are good, bad and neutral machines, who collaborate, compete and combat one another in different ways. If we are lucky, they will be human minded machines and the human minded machines are nevertheless taught to compete..., if not, well we are just another variable/just another group. Probably a bit of everything is the most likely, unless we destroy ourselves first. Lets try avoid that one, I'm sure AI-lan would agree with us this is a priority.