The Future of Robots and Income

Speaker 0: we've all seen, elon musk robe irobot party or werobot party, with the new tesla robots that nothing like here comes skynet have i witnessed except seeing those robots walk down the, the aisle as it were, the hundreds of them in serving drinks. and although most of them, if not all of them, were human controlled at the party, were not long before they're not. and, you know, he says that they're gonna be twenty to thirty thousand and that they'll be the single most, bought product on the planet ever. how's that future look like to you when, you know, robots are twenty thousand bucks a person and they can do the work for us? when the robots are doing the work, what do people do and how do we get paid?

Speaker 1: oh. batman, you wanna go?

Speaker 2: i have my answer.

Speaker 1: i see it. i see it. i personally see it no different than a human survey. if it's if it's capable of performing the job, great. i mean, twenty thousand dollars for, you know, i don't know how long that would last. let's say twenty thousand a year. it's a great deal to have, to have a resource that's, you know, willing to do all these things for you. and i personally think humans aren't supposed to be working. we're supposed to be creating and enjoying, and then that's really if we're we're just stuck in this world where we actually have to do work, provide labor in order to just survive, but really we're supposed to be, creating, you know, come up with original ideas and create, not really just do the same thing over and over. i'm pretty sure serving drinks to people is really nobody's, you know, great thing i mean, mixologists and maybe that's a little bit different, but but, you know, serving drinks at an event, i don't think that's, anybody would be upset if a robot's being diverse as a human's doing that. and i think governments will have to start looking at this very seriously in terms of universal income and some of those things, because they're the sub jobs will disappear. and then like, the people that don't, adapt and retrain or, you know, prepare themselves, will need to be taken care of by us, the people, and and the society.

Speaker 2: i always say that there's gonna be four jobs remaining, politician, diplomat, salesperson, and executive. and maybe entrepreneur kinda fits as, like, a type of executive under that category, but, like, that's it, basically. it's like, the only work that's left is deciding what work needs to get done. and humans are always gonna wanna do that because, you know, we're we've seen enough nuclear apocalypse movies. we're not gonna let the robots, like, start telling us what to do. we wanna tell the robots what to do. but then we have to agree with each other on what we wanna tell the robots to do, and that that is the work to be done. like, that like, have you ever seen those, like, star trek movies and, like, there's, like, those civilizations and, like, they're all in just, like, robes? and, like, they don't do any work. they just, like, walk around and argue with each other and, like, fight over politics and whatnot. that's our future. you know? like, the real work the robots do and all the work that humans do is arguing with each other on what the robots should be doing. doing.

Speaker 0: well, that seems like a, utopian version, and we, easily could go to the, wall e version where we have people floating around, don't know how to do anything. remember the captain of the ship floats around on this chair, and he doesn't know how to run the ship, and nobody has and, like, when the robots stop working, no one knows how to fix

Speaker 2: them anymore. and and we

Speaker 0: have that situation. so it becomes invisible technology. like, the computers are such now, like, fridges used to be, where you'd really have to know, but no one cares anymore. right? it just works. and when it's broken, you call a specialist to fix it, where if you had a computer, i don't know, twenty years ago, you really kinda had to know how to use it and build it and stuff. but now anybody can use it. and if it doesn't work, you just call a guy, and he comes and fixes it. so is that where ai is gonna be our new call a guy and fix it? you know, my computer doesn't work. ai fix it for me.

Speaker 2: i think that yeah. i think, basically, the wall e universe is not improbable, but i think that there's a lot more politics than that. there will be a lot more politics than what was depicted in the wall e universe. like, in there, all the humans agreed to just be, like, served by the machines. like, they weren't fighting with each other that much over what the machines should be doing. i think that's that's a whole can of worms. but, personally, i think again about adding value is, like, if you wanna survive and compete with the machines, you have to add more value than what they do or add value on top of what they do. some people have hypothesized that that means we have to merge with the machines, like, you know, do cybernetics stuff so we become super intelligent ais, human hybrids. i don't think that's strictly necessary, but that i wouldn't rule that out, as, like, a potential option.

Speaker 0: isn't that where we're heading with the neuralink processor and what elon's doing?

Speaker 2: yeah. so that's right. you might be left behind if you don't get a neuralink. that might be the thing when we're old.