From the cubicles of “Office Space” to the culture of “Silicon Valley,” hard work went into building companies where team members are valued and don’t feel like cogs in a corporate machine. But what happens when machines start replacing them?
In the foreseeable future, the unprecedented rate of technological progress in AI, digitalization, AR/VR, and automation will once again force us to reimagine the definition of meaningful work. Every aspect of companies, from their culture to how they connect with customers, is going to be challenged.
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6. @helenstravels @shanemac
@mfriedl_nyc @joshuamarch
#madebyhumans #sxsw
PollQuestions Who is afraid of losing their livelihood
to machines?
• No: I’m 100% confident my job is safe
• Not really: It most likely won’t impact me
• No Opinion
• Kind of: It will likely impact me, but not
substantially
• Yes: I’m terrified that my job is replaceable
by machines
8. @helenstravels @shanemac
@mfriedl_nyc @joshuamarch
#madebyhumans #sxsw
Economists forecast the likelihood
of wage earners who will lose their
jobs to automation are:
• 4% $40 per hour or more
• 31% Up to $40 per hour
• 83% $20 per hour or less
Economic Report of the President, Feb 2016
9. @helenstravels @shanemac
@mfriedl_nyc @joshuamarch
#madebyhumans #sxsw
Assumptions • We’re on the precipice of the most disruptive and transformative
change in technological progress we’ve ever experienced before.
• It’s coming despite populism shifts and whether or not you are
prepared for it.
• Everyone in this audience will be impacted by it.
• AI, automation, and robotics will replace jobs.
• AI, automation, and robotics will create new job opportunities.
• Some humans don’t do well with change.
• Not all of us are doing meaningful work now.
• Humans are valuable.
13. @helenstravels @shanemac
@mfriedl_nyc @joshuamarch
#madebyhumans #sxsw
Two Outcomes
Dystopian
• AI Takes Over Humans
• Increased Wealth Gap
• Cog work and/or no work
• Worst-case capitalism: Work
more, paid less, worse work/life
balance
• Value of human work decreases;
labor force will get cheaper as
jobs disappear
Utopian
• AI + Humans = Better
• All Rise
• Meaningful work and/or
universal income
• Post-capitalism: Don’t have to
work -> Move to just
creating/philosophizing
• Value of human work
increases
#madebyhumans #sxsw
18. @helenstravels @shanemac
@mfriedl_nyc @joshuamarch
#madebyhumans #sxsw
Training/Re-education
• Absolutely crucial
• Current education system
isn’t equipped
• Who’s responsibility?
• No one / market forces
• Government
• Companies
• Philanthropists / Non-profit
• Family
19. @helenstravels @shanemac
@mfriedl_nyc @joshuamarch
#madebyhumans #sxsw
• Embrace
– Embrace AI, but don’t try to move too fast
• E.g. Start with scheduling app
– Think augment
• Evaluate
– Your company, values, and brand; how will this impact
your company? Decide how you will approach.
• Educate
– Plan to retrain – yourself, your company
– Integrate learning into your company culture
• Invest
– Hire with inclusiveness in mind. Invest in diversity of
thought, location, background, etc.
• Structure
– What’s your organizational structure going to be? H
• Adapt
– Be open to a change, externally and internally
Prepare
https://www.wto.org/english/res_e/booksp_e/anrep_e/wtr08-2b_e.pdf
The first episode began around the mid-19th century and ended with the commencement of World War I (WWI). The second episode began in the aftermath of World War II (WWII) and continues today. In both these episodes of globalization, rapid trade and output growth went together with major shifts in the relative size of the economies involved. One valuable lesson from history is that globalization has not been a smooth process. It has often been marked by periods of accelerated integration (as observed in the 19th century and in the second half of the 20th century) and by periods of dramatic reversals (as in the inter-war period) sometimes with costly consequences.
This is a great resource:
https://www.accenture.com/t20170206T005353__w__/us-en/_acnmedia/PDF-33/Accenture-Why-AI-is-the-Future-of-Growth.PDF#zoom=50
How many jobs are predicted to vbe
Alts:
How human will your company will be in 2030?
Are you ready for the new economy that’s coming?
Will you part of your company in 2030?
How many jobs are predicted to vbe
Alts:
How human will your company will be in 2030?
Are you ready for the new economy that’s coming?
Will you part of your company in 2030?
https://www.accenture.com/us-en/artificial-intelligence-index?gclid=COqygu7LwNICFcWFswodVQIKWA&c=tek_usaify17psgs&n=AI_-_US&s_kwcid=AL!5115!3!171095032440!p!!g!!ai&ef_id=VrKSKgAABCu-TiQ1:20170306001147:s
Other quote
Our [Accenture] research shows that by 2035, AI could double annual growth rates in 12 developed countries by changing the nature of work and creating a new relationship between man and machine
If you look at ATMs - replaced bank tellers HOWEVER created more jobs
Address:
Where we are
What’s coming – we’re discussing a revolution that’s COMING
What are you going to do?
Sources:
https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2014/12/tech-from-10-years-ago-blogging-bluetooth-and-the.html
http://www2.technologyreview.com/news/402435/10-emerging-technologies-that-will-change-your/
Universal TranslationSynthetic BiologyNanowiresT-RaysDistributed StorageRNAi InterferencePower Grid ControlMicrofluidic Optical FibersBayesiam Machine Learning
Personal Genomics
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/panache/ces-2017-the-hottest-new-gadgets-from-the-worlds-biggest-tech-show/articleshow/56431759.cms
2004
iPod (pre-iPhone)
MySpace Most Popular
Facebook Launched
2005 Internet passed 1B Users
Twitter, YouTube, Google Maps didn’t exist
Broadband was being more widely adopted
Motorola RAZR V3
Bluetooth: Future of wireless
DVR was disrupting TV
Skype introduced
Satellite radio
“Blogging” became a word
“Convergence” big idea
Nanowires is breakthrough tech
Bayesian Machine Learning
Distributed Storage (e.g. KaZaA music sharing)
2017
Internet Users
Mobile Phone users:
Facebook
Blockchain growing
Self-driving cars
Wearables
IoT
A LAPTOP POWERED BY A SMARTPHONE
Commerical Space Industry
Crytocurrencies –bitcoin more valuable than gold
Lynx, the world's first videoenabled humanoid robot powered by Amazon's Alexa
Deep learning
2030
Type of economy: we don’t know: data, concept, not sure? (survival economy)
Robots
AI
Commercial Space Industry
Genetic Code
Data Raw Material
Global “neural network”
Shifts in economies: non-monetary; not represented in GDP; global currencies
Predictions by Kurzweils (https://singularityhub.com/2015/01/26/ray-kurzweils-mind-boggling-predictions-for-the-next-25-years/):
By the late 2010s, glasses will beam images directly onto the retina. Ten terabytes of computing power (roughly the same as the human brain) will cost about $1,000.
- By the 2020s, most diseases will go away as nanobots become smarter than current medical technology. Normal human eating can be replaced by nanosystems. The Turing test begins to be passable. Self-driving cars begin to take over the roads, and people won’t be allowed to drive on highways.
By the 2030s, virtual reality will begin to feel 100% real. We will be able to upload our mind/consciousness by the end of the decade.
<1 – General - Josh: Tech evolves exponentially; Moore’s Law – 100x difference over the 100 years; our brains think linearly, not exponentially>
1) When it comes to history, we think in straight lines. When we imagine the progress of the next 30 years, we look back to the progress of the previous 30 as an indicator of how much will likely happen. When we think about the extent to which the world will change in the 21st century, we just take the 20th century progress and add it to the year 2000. This was the same mistake our 1750 guy made when he got someone from 1500 and expected to blow his mind as much as his own was blown going the same distance ahead.
It’s most intuitive for us to think linearly, when we should be thinking exponentially.
If someone is being more clever about it, they might predict the advances of the next 30 years not by looking at the previous 30 years, but by taking the current rate of progress and judging based on that. They’d be more accurate, but still way off. In order to think about the future correctly, you need to imagine things moving at a much faster rate than they’re moving now.
Artificial General Intelligence, or AGI (AI that’s at least as intellectually capable as a human, across the board)
Kurzweil believes computers will reach AGI by 2029 and that by 2045, we’ll have not only ASI, but a full-blown new world—a time he calls the singularity. His AI-related timeline used to be seen as outrageously overzealous, and it still is by many,6 but in the last 15 years, the rapid advances of ANI systems have brought the larger world of AI experts much closer to Kurzweil’s timeline. His predictions are still a bit more ambitious than the median respondent on Müller and Bostrom’s survey (AGI by 2040, ASI by 2060), but not by that much.
Kurzweil’s depiction of the 2045 singularity is brought about by three simultaneous revolutions in biotechnology, nanotechnology, and, most powerfully, AI.
Armed with superintelligence and all the technology superintelligence would know how to create, ASI would likely be able to solve every problem in humanity. Global warming? ASI could first halt CO2 emissions by coming up with much better ways to generate energy that had nothing to do with fossil fuels.
1930 – Josh’s 15 hours John something kings
Shane: Value being part of something more value (hidden figures); work is a new notion – puritan
<Shane Jey to speak to this slide>
Shareholders – go beyond the beyond the bottom line.
How do we (as biz owners) do create meaningful work? We still have to employee humans to have an economy
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How do we find meaningfulness in our work?
US: Live to work; International: Work to live
Puritan: work ethic instilled into US group consciousness
How do we currently value humans? Retirees = worthless - no?
Core debate point:
Josh: Gary Kasparov, after being beaten by deep blue, set up a new type of chess tournament ('freestyle chess') where the players are human+machine. It turns out that a *good* chess player who's really good at working with a chess program is actually better than either a grandmaster or a chess program alone.
Despite automation, we are working more than ever before. This bodes the question, how will we define work? How will we derive meaningfulness in work?
Romans in their forums
Here? - Go is this where may mention that politics could actually hold back automation? e.g. states may not allow self driving cars without drivers because of fear of job loss. Or there could be a robot tax when a company fires someone and replaces with a robot (kind of proposed by bill gates just recently -- could be a good image / call out)
Interconnected: algorithms need the people and data from people.
Really good: https://www.slideshare.net/webgoddesscathy/don-tapscotts-new-solutions-for-a-connected-planet-mars-global-leadership
Chief cultural officer
Chief AI officer
What’s your organizational structure going to be? Add a Chief AI or Cultural officer?
Does this matter to your company from a brand, customer service, competitive, and/or?
What happens when robots start replacing workers? How do you keep your team happy?
How do we derive meaningfulness in work? Or will we seek it elsewhere?
Who’s responsibility is it to retrain? Look after those who lose jobs?
Here? - Go is this where may mention that politics could actually hold back automation? e.g. states may not allow self driving cars without drivers because of fear of job loss. Or there could be a robot tax when a company fires someone and replaces with a robot (kind of proposed by bill gates just recently -- could be a good image / call out)
Jey: speak to history of branding
Right now very lifestyle-oriented of a brand fitting into a person’s life
Very person-centric/individualistic
Also, if it’s quicker and better to use a machine, humans will migrate over (e.g. banks/atms + self check-out grocery lines)
Find: Car companies are investing in US; HOWEVER, investing in machines to make cars. Find some stats around this.
Technology brings more efficiencies for companies, but as teams are replaced with them, how do you keep the team that remains happy?
Taxes, Stock, Salary, Price
Will you take on narrower profit margins for your VALUES?
?? Brand encompasses labor force, product, demand, company culture
VALUES!!!
Really good: https://www.slideshare.net/webgoddesscathy/don-tapscotts-new-solutions-for-a-connected-planet-mars-global-leadership
Who’s responsibility is it to retrain? Look after those who lose jobs?
C-Level
Business Owner/Entreprenuer/Soloprenuer
In the workforce
Chief AI, Chief Cultural Officer
Meaningfulness may come from outside of the workplace
Find a home for:
“How do we create AI to augment the human capability. Enhance the human experience?”
-Satya Nadelli, Microsoft CEO at the Aspen Ideas Festival 2016
Behind AI is humans who code. Humans are not perfect. What we create is not perfect.
This will not always be the case. AI will surpass need for human interaction.