A Silicon Valley VC Imagines A Future Where Most Of Us (Except Robots) Don’t Have Jobs

After social distancing measures forced layoffs in labor-intensive factories, manufacturers turned to automation, despite the high cost. Now, they aren't going back.

Batiste comes from a family of musicians; he played percussion with the Batiste Brothers Band as a kid, and his debut album came out before he could vote. Originally broadcast July 28, 2018.

In February, McKinsey Global Institute predicted that 45 million Americans—one-quarter of the workforce—would lose their jobs to automation ... off of shelves. The robots are the shelves, which move ...

Eventually there are not going to be any jobs left for flesh and blood humans, not when robots ... Stretch do, exactly? Quite a few things that normally fall on the shoulders of a human worker ...

Can we do better job matching?” asks Malone ... But Ruth Thomson with Cambridge Consultants presents the other side of the equation when it comes to human-like robots: “There’s a whole different ...

You think robots ... do best, to think and create. Wishful thinking, eh? (Courtesy: Cabe Atwell) Whether we like it or not, using robots to execute repetitive tasks is wildly more efficient than ...

There's a degree of irony to introducing a human-aware robot designed to replace humans, but that's fine if it means that more people can take jobs they'd actually like.

Vecna’s robots are expected to replace about 25 jobs at the North Carolina facility ... machines can’t perform or that humans simply do better. The question is whether that will always ...

Why? Job and life advice for young professionals. See more from Ascend here. Science-fiction films and novels usually portray robots as one of two things: destroyers of the human race or friendly ...

FN Meka certainly sounds like every other hard-to-parse, extremely online rapper. So of course the AI robot currently boasts 9 million TikTok followers and has racked up over 1 billion views.