Jobs of the future and how we can prepare for them | Avinash Meetoo | TEDxALC
Following the current trend of the skills needed for jobs and the automation of different industries, Avinash Meetoo believes robots are the way of the future. He therefore says that the creative arts will thrive because people will have time on their hands and will be able to create things that entertain. In addition to the creative arts, there will be a high demand for jobs that call for computer science. Meetoo advocates for the creation of STEMA - Science, Maths, Engineering, Maths and the Arts, a field that will develop computer scientists who are artistic.
Avinash is the Founder and CEO of Knowleged Seven, provider of MQA-approved training in information technology (mainly open-source software), communication and digital marketing since November 2008 and Knowledge Seven Consulting, service provider for Linux and other open source software, mobile and web development and digital marketing since January 2012. More than 15 years of practical experience in IT.
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This is super profound...even if you have a good job or a profitable business, you should be thinking about what it will look like in 10 years and get ready.
Very interesting point that the music and movie industries were born right after the industrial revolution..
Thank you
This guy was so right back then. AI didn't leave jobless some taxi drivers in NY but the quarantine did...Better prepare for the future regardless AI!
I’m watching this mid 2018. This guy definitely making sense. He is so intelligent 🤓 superlike 👍
Fully automatic Bagels! I never saw that coming!
🤣🤣🤣🤣 bagels
Nourished my interest in science more
This is so true and very interesting! I agree with what he says. Most people do not like math and science because they think is boring, however, we can make it fun and interesting by adding the creative side into it.
Vehicles or bagels? That is the question.
❤❤❤❤😍😍😍 I LOVEEEEEEE THIS TEDX.... Very very good. So sad it hasn't gone viral... 😓 these are the things the masses need to know.
great vision. good luck :)
In future simple man who will have no job will try to destroy the machines because of frustration😂.I can't understand if there will be no job then who will buy the product of companies?nd how will we survive to the planet😢😢
Insightful and encouraging for my potential career
Sometime it make me confuse how robot are better than human.. When human itself create the robot...where human can dream where as robot not... Where human can think emotionally and where as robot not... A human can always be better cuz they can create anything which it possible to it... Nothing is impossible cuz doing nothing is impossible...
I would like to add that I had mentioned more jobs in my video regarding this . It is important for those who are graduating and not sure what profession to study. I totally agree with you on this.
I loved this video! And It do me think how I need prepare to the future! But more of than, "what de future will need?". More automation, more facility for mobile devices (maybe), etc!
this talk helped me a lot. it made me feel calmer about my future and made me feel like my future is more safe
The human population is increasing day by day and they minimize the job aportunities with machinery...the future is so strange.
THE EPIC SHOW yet they open up even more via automation, meaning humans won't have to do menial labor
Ethan Braun But we all need to earn a living to eat. As more jobs become automated less jobs are created. Jobs = food so how do we eat without jobs?
Poor people are going to die. Its what the 1% want for this world. More people die more room for them.
The problem is overpopulation
Evelyn Pomasqui Peñafiel the real problem is greed and corruption. Don't act like that's not real. And what do you mean over population? How many people is suppose to be on the earth in 2018? Are you saying 7 billion people isn't supposed exist in 2018? What's the proper number then? I hear people just say it's just overpopulated, but never explain why that it is, or the statistics.
2020 is showing middle finger to all predictions
We deserve freedom
With people losing jobs, who are buying the vast products built by the robots?
I am both of these things! Thanks for providing such a confirming position! I agree with the STEAM. Thanks Avinash.
For the last three weeks, I have read and seen ( whatever is possible in 15 hrs per day) on the furute of education and I am convinced that the technologies being worked onmtoday will change the education landscape exponentially for the better. My question is, how are kids in a country with 74 dialects as their mother tongues ,connect, integrate, collaborate and create . How will they sumount the linguistic traps or barriers. I am aware of the work of DARPA in language translations. Any hope for inmthe nearmfuture?...
Great talk... But I dont see much about the world of emotions in the future. How is technology part of improving intra and interpessoal skills?
I find that what he's talking about here fits perfectly with how Montessori schools work. In this day in age, a Montessori school with a STEM emphasis would be a hotbed for enjoyable learning.
complexity is not a problem for AI . AI do not do well in open end task with undefined rules and unknown information -- human workers who can adapt to open end task with undefined rules and unknown information will still have a job.
Most jobs in IT will be gone just like most blue collar jobs... programs will write programs on demand. There will be small portion of jobs in this segment related to real science but your average coder programing yet another version of candy crush will be jobless maybe even sooner than people in manufacturing. I give it less than 10 years for that to happen.
lamebubblesflysohigh they can't be replaced by what they create same with engineering
of course they can and they already are
How is it possible for a program something without You to tell it how and what to program?
The future indeed holds many to us, there are going to be more and more technology and fewer jobs in the not so distant future. In this talk Avinash has covered what we call the 'New Machine Age' which takes me back when I was writing my theses on Human vs Machine. "Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilisations, of arts and of sciences." Thank you Avinash for this amazing talk.
Was the new Knowledge 7 ever made? How do we find it?
Morpheus knows.
xD
Autonomous bagels
Auto-generated subtitles were correct - human transcribers can start packing.
LOL!!!
show me one Roboter, that get this joke :D
Augmented reality autonomous bagels.
That description - " the creation of STEMA - Science, Maths, Engineering, Maths and the Arts". How is that not fixed yet?
Creating value for others is dependent on the capacity of and potential of human socio economic relationships
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Tushar A so RIP
is a lawyer in general going to survive in the future? just a question for argument purposes
Be there, be ready...counting 10 years from now on...
Who builds the machines that build the machines that build the machines that build the machines?
Andrew Cisneros until AI that surpassed human emerged
Machines will build better machines than people. That is 1000% guaranteed. Imagine being able to work on something (physical) with 1000 hands 24hrs a day without rest. U think ppl will win if that's their competition. Look at movie's. Robots or computers will not even need ppl for the entertainment of ppl. They can make a movie in seconds using everything we already have out there. Cgi. We will not even be able to trust our eyes as to what is real or fake. News will become obsolete and imagine what a really bad virus could do to a system that has military capable actions. Y'all are crazy. I already see it coming, we continue to destroy our planet so we did it to ourselves .
Machines, naturally...
I think it’s the machine that built that machine that built that machine that created that machine that destroyed and recreated the machine did? Idk ._.
Nice video.
Excellent talk Avinash.
the future is for good for inteligent persons biological inteligence persons OR artificial inteligence persons we all are conciousnes whether we are biological or artificial THIS WILL BE THE FUTURE
Would pursuing a bachelor in artificial intelligence and robotization be a good choice ?
Let's assume that jobs would be replaced by robots and the working class becomes jobless. So, the business that uses robots needs consumers with actual purchasing power which would eventually go extinct if people have no jobs, and there would be no demand. That means the entrepreneurs would stop production due to a recession. What would be the job of people who build robots if there is no need for one?
I've heard this described as STEAM ....different acronym..same idea
They call it STEAM in our area, as well!
I love autonomous bagels.
It's 2021 but we ain't got that many automated cars
love science
My summary: Bagel loving African Steve Jobs posing as an artistic computer scientist on TEDx commenting about his e-learning platform and STEMA.
intro ends at 6:31
TheLast Cipher thanks. I forgot what I was watching lol
Thank you
anybody know of a more recent video like this (2020 vs 2016)
look for Processing and P5JS , computing arts
So.... No job is safe from automation no matter how skilled you think you are. Robots are already smarer than us. Yet somehow, the math, science, and software development jobs will be spared so everyone can purchase his new learning system and get secure jobs in those fields.
driverless bagels?
9:10 I seriously question your stats. Your source says, that this is the fraction of linkin searches. This are by no way the total amount of jobs looked for. Its just that you dont look to hire a GP (for example) through linkedin
Most logistic operations vehicles that deliver products and goods are owned by the person who drive them .We have to choose to vehicles and that will never happen .People who own their jobs are not going to get rid of their own jobs. .Right now as we speak on Thomas trucks can barely drive at the speed limit on dry flat Hayes ment
computer science is not a career but something that augment a career. computers is the side dish not the main entrée.... it is like a language like English.... English is not a career but it is a side skill that supports another career goal like being a teacher , author, or translator...etc..
As a stay at home mother, I'm even aware, and concerned, ruddy in the name of "progress," Eben my job is at stake. That being pregnant the natural way, and delivering babies, the natural way, is going to become "old fashioned." That, raising human babies, is going to be done by the state, and that mote, and more, the movie The Island, is becoming the truth sooner than we think... As dedicated of a mother than I am, I know in my heart, no one can raise children, the way loving parents can... 😢😢😢
HIGHLANDER 🙃
You are jobless unless you receive ane economic compensation. Raising kids can be perfectly done by the state.
What about the millions of "bad" parents.
Oh how horrible situation we have in this modern world.
Hello, r u a native English speaker? Actually I want a friend to whom I can voice talk on WhatsApp or video calling to improve my English? If u r interested then share ur fb id. I ll msg u my cell number
What is better to get a job .. CS degree or IT degree ? please help
Can Indians access it ?
Become a technical expert in a subject you enjoy, then create.
As always is healthy to challenge ideas, let's imagine that all population develop these skills, I am pretty sure that not all of them will be able to apply this knowledge to get a job or earn money to live, what I am saying is that we are about 7 billion people in the world and not all of us will be able to find something to do even if we all develop these skills, is simple mathematics and statistics, what do you think about what I've just said?
Luis Junes Were fucked
They’re going to depopulate the world. There won’t be 7 billion people here 10 years from now. Money will be digital. Leading to dependence on the government. Cash is too easy to get in the wrong hands. Transhumanism will be pushed.
Ever heard of bitcoin? If cash is too easy to get in the wrong hands you can just select the currency of your choice
What about digital marketing...
Dishwasher took my job at home!!! NOOOOOO!!! :(
Heheheheh
The matrix brothers - or whatever floats their boats - were right.
I find it really scary that only one kid out of four is taking maths and science at Form IV level. And even among the few who take science, I found that a lot don't actually understand how science works. They only study it to pass the exam.
We're evolving ourselves into extinction.. Fantastic!
AI will also be able to develop software and a other computer science. so those jobs will go.
Then how to have a jobs in the future and what are those jobs?? if robot/machine/AI will take over? please answer?
Universal Basic Income and then you will find time to create additional income.
Yeah the problem is, who can buy this games, arts, music. KZhead earns money from advertising, if nobody can buy products advertised, entertainers do not earn anything from that.
Migalors Darwin and
Yeah, maybe you are right, maybe other things will motivate us then money. But could these things be that motivate us?
The game .. go
Now my point is how we preparing for a future if the future has been the same just listen to me....we have been saying this for years but my point is were not prepared at all our future is the same so if we have a phone from 150 years ago and then we have a modern day phone big difference but we still have phones and if we have a classroom from 70 years ago looks diffrent but we still have schools so same thing we have things from 100 years ago and still do but a better model how are we prepared for the future of our existence if it’s the same!?!?
June 3rd - Knowledge7 has been put on hold
What happened on June 3rd?
There will be no job in the near future that cannot be replaced by an algorithm or CNC machine .......and therein lies the dilemma. Who will buy the products that this system creates..........they will all be jobless. The outcome to all of this is both obvious and inevitable and has dire consequences.
Unless you're an AI programmer
Not if we build AI who are better at programming AI than us.
well we have to develop a new economy catered to this AI World. Something like the resource based economy would be great.
You are speaking from a very capitalistic mindset. People don't need jobs, they need resources such as food, drink, shelter and social contacts. In our system, access to those is regulated through money which you get by working a job. In a world with next to no jobs for humans, it would be ridiculous to keep up a system that requires full time employment to earn enough money to make a living. Maybe we would finally build an economy where people work not more than they can or have to, in order to keep production running smoothly for their community. If enough is produced with very little human work required, why artificially create jobs instead of sharing the workload and letting everyone reap the benefits? Why not work for your community instead of making just a few people very rich?
Barry Hughes, Yes I don't know why no one thinks about that, only work 1 day a week driving, for now, have all the free time anyone could have...but no money to anything.
who is going to buy the art?
Sean Struble those who have a lot of time and liked to be entertained.
hire him as my country's education ministry
what an interesting accent! (Mauritius I think)
The title should be changed to "IT jobs of the future"
Future of mechatronics ?
Elearning?? Is youtube doing that already for free.
Not good enough.
Summary: if you don't have STEM skills, you are unlikely to have a job in the future. Not everyone has an interest in science and math, this is acknowledged; however, apparently, you will have to learn to like this stuff anyway. The jobs of the future are: creating apps and software, big data analysis, IT / computer science (duh), robotics, AI etc.. This guy thinks that combining engineering with the arts will be cool, and he has created a platform for people who are interested in becoming "creative" artsy-engineers - mkay.
That is a very very over optimistic number. People have to want these things before they will be on the R oad .I thought of as vehicles are barely at level 2 right now. Leading expert field state it will be to 70 years before level 3 is achieved. No vehicles will not be a thing
We are in 2017 and we work 40 hours per week. Makes no sense
The creation and existence of machines never provided freedom to human beings. I view this speaker approach very carefully. He says that after the industrial revolution there was greater freedom for human beings to dedicate themselves to music, cinema, the arts in short. I ask: who actually had this possibility? The same as always, the same privileged as always. The mass of workers, like now, wallowed in extreme periods of work, terrible wages, no access to cultural goods, no access to quality social and health services. Furthermore, in the realm of machines will there be work for everyone? Who will work and have income to consume the products and services of this new era? As machines reduce the amount and types of economic activities, with population growth it is possible to consider that a majority will be outside, on the margins of economic activities. Not to mention the impact on the health and well-being of planet earth, whose resources are slipping away through our fingers thanks to the criminal action of us human beings against the environment. In short, there are numerous issues that were not addressed by the speaker. I got excited at first, but in the end I realized that I had already seen this same type of speech in other mouths, languages and images. But it's always the usual liberals proclaiming in favor of a freedom that they themselves never tire of defying.
i watched it muted and the closed caption turned on
Driving a bus or lorry is not unskilled.
since robot are going to do everything, we don't need science anymore....why should I be able to solve a 3rd-grade equation ?
Masheens
Once the combustion engine was invented it replaced the horses who use to transport our goods around. Except few who left for the pleasuse of the riches, all the rest desappeared. Tomorrow people like me who have no special abilities and gifts or money probably will follow the same path.
you are so right You got it .
We are moving towards what happened to the Eldar in Warhammer . Slowly moving towards more and more questionable porn and entertainment. I think our minds turn numb to a certain level after a point and then looks for the next kind of entertainment mostly driven by primal desires. O_O
What is going to happen to the population without a high enough IQ or the learning skills who currently filling low skilled jobs when they are replaced by AI? Even your idea of combining art with technology requires that the person has aesthetic sense. Today there are over 2 billion people existing on $2.00 a day and the population is expanding rapidly. Access to the internet is causing people to become restless. Before they knew there was an alternate way to live they were resigned to their way of life. The results of this new awareness is the unbridled migration into Europe and, to a lesser extent, America and Canada. It is resulting in chaos and, in the not too distant future, anarchy and civil war. Because of the overwhelming numbers of migrants, the limited resources, the inability of the indigenous peoples or the migrants to adapt and accept their new reality and certainly the inability of the migrant to speak the language, assimilation is impossible. These migrants have drastically different cultural norms and understanding of what is right and wrong, legal and illegal. This is true even between the different migrant communities and all this results in ghettoization. Migrants are recreating their own countries within European cities which have become ' no go zones '. As a result of technology and the advent of AI we can look forward to more of the same without a rational means of solving the problems. No matter how ' smart ' AI becomes there will be human's limitations to understand and accept this new reality and the intelligence and skills to survive in spite of it.
Alpha Go Zero is a way better than Alpha Go!
You know what's funny ? I'm a rapper .... engineer 😂
Careful - Something This Susceptible Is Open To Curve Balls.
They took our jerbs!
But how would we afford to buy the necessities of life? UBI and welfare seems the only option.
Yes, Universal Basic Income.
Tell me, how has automation decreased the work time of the average worker?
www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1977/12/25/200-years-ago-the-12-hour-day-the-6-day-week/8a0f3c78-b7a0-4db4-ac33-00649519d1eb/?.a51266bcbb48
This was good until 11:05 Computer science! Thats not everyones cup of tea
$500 us to jus do 1 year of IT here in barbados ... poor people cant get that education
Nice.. but this is not looking at the whole picture. Humans need humans. Ok maybe you wouldn't mind being operated on by a robot. But would you choose to be taken care of and comforted by a robot? I don't think so. We need our nurses, we need therapists, we need our chefs to create amazing meals, using their taste buds. We need people in Judicial system to not only look at the Facts which a robot would do but also look at the emotional aspects of a case. And l can go on...
I agree, we'll always need warmth but I think robots has a lot to offer us. I think about how burned out our nurses/teachers are -- and I see robots as alleviating their job...in the sense, the robots would do the undesirable parts, where the humans come in to do the parts where they shine -- that is in comforting, inspiring, and pushing us. I can see it as a symbiotic relationship.
I came across this Ted video randomly, I immediately felt the Mauritian vibes in this video, I was like; "This must be a Ted talk in Mauritius, the accent, the English prose...etc." What bothers me is what you have said from 15:00 onwards, we're almost in 2021, 5 years from this speech and I have yet to sense the change with the ideas that you put forward to the audience (I'm assuming those were Educators). COVID-19 apart, I was a bored student and I ALMOST never met my Educators (online course-you take away responsibility from teacher and student), I was not inspired, students and teachers have too many false considerations. It's bullsh*t. I wanted a course in Maths or Psychology but I got a course in Web & Multimedia. My fault for following through and dropping. Well, we actually cannot put COVID-19 aside because it has affected Jobs. So a revision is required on how to prepare for jobs of the future from now. I'm bitter, but I actually love staying at home being a sloth. I regret my laziness everyday. P.S. I never heard of Knowledge Seven btw...first time I saw it is here.
I've seen art created by a.i. and music written and played by a.i. programs as good as any artist... one that could write thousands of songs in a minute. bye bye artists. won't be long before they can write great stories and make movies.
Artists will thrive in the future. AI have no souls, no emotions. In order to be an artist, you need to put your soul signature on your work.
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