Today on the podcast, we're talking about AI and robotics and the future of where this goes, we're going to be looking at essentially some of the announcements and some things out of Amazon. What we're seeing there, I think it's pretty indicative of what's going to happen in the future in a lot of different industries. I think this has massive implications for the entire workforce for maybe jobs that don't require college degrees. There's a lot of really interesting things here.
And of course, I feel like we already have AI that has replaced most jobs that do require college degrees or it's smart enough that eventually it will be. Some people might be mad at me, yelling at me, listening, I think skilled labor, I'm sorry, you know, knowledge workers, that kind of stuff. AI has done a lot of that. In any case, we're going to talk about robotics today.
I think this is going to have some big implications for a massive chunk of the workforce and there's two visions we're going to cover, two ideas of what the future might look like. I'll paint them both and you can decide what you think is going to happen. Before we get into that, I wanted to mention that AI box my startup has just come into beta. We have our first product which is an AI box playground and essentially this allows you to test all of the top AI models in one platform for $20 a month.
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Let's get into what Amazon's doing. So the first thing I think I want to talk about is the fact that we have kind of these two different pathways that people are predicting are going to happen. So one of them is where essentially all jobs are getting replaced by AI and essentially AI-powered robots. Some people think that, you know, all jobs except for their own, the venture capitalist Mark and Drason doesn't think that AI could ever replace his work as an investor or that could be automated.
So that's kind of interesting. And so, you know, some people think it's going to essentially do everything, maybe except for a handful of things. And there's another group of people that think that robots are essentially going to do kind of all of the boring, more mundane, heavy lifting tasks, and they'll kind of be like a human companion kind of the way when, you know, we use chat GPT. It's not like chat GPT has replaced our job, but it's kind of augmented us.
We use it alongside that. So some people feel like, you know, robot will be kind of like what chat GPT is for us right now where it's kind of helping us, but it's not like it has replaced everything. It's not like it does everything. We still just use it.
So some people, a lot of people think that this is going to be more of what actually happens in the future. I don't think this is a career to look down on. So whatever, but robots are replacing a lot of this. So I do think that we're making some, obviously some big shifts.
What are those people going to do? The reason I bring up the other stuff is because like just because I was working in a warehouse, they doesn't mean they're dumb, like tech crunches, like those that don't have the intellectual desire. I'm like, come on. These are dumb people.
It's just what they're just doing a job. It probably pays good for what they need and it's that phase of their life, whatever. So they're not dumb people. They can do lots of other things.
They're smart people. And what other things could they do? Amazon says that they can work on the robots that are coming. So when Amazon revealed their big new Vulcan robot, which is apparently doing like 70% of everything happening in the warehouses, it says, quote, Vulcan is helping make work safer by handling ergonomically challenging tasks while creating opportunities for teammates to grow their skills and robotic maintenance.
So that was the CEO and the JCPost over on X, that was his Twitter post. So on the one hand, Volcan is replacing a ton of people. And on the other hand, they said that there is a lot that a lot of new jobs are going to be created. So the robots, they're able to get lower shelves than humans can.
They don't, they're making a social media stuff to climb ladders or bend down all day long, hurt their backs. I just think at the end of the day, this is probably a great thing. And then they also talk about how they're going to be training warehouse workers to become robot technicians. And essentially the robot is going to be more picking stuff out and people are going to be working on the robots because the robots, like if we're being honest, they're doing about 75% of all the customer order fulfillment.
So they're capable of doing virtually everything. They also said that they're self educating and improving. But thanks to AI embedded in them. So they're getting better and better.
You can imagine eventually things are going to be able to get everything. And but we're going to need a lot of people to work on these robots to fix them. And that crunch writers seem to think that the warehouse workers won't be smart enough to do it. Amazon seems to think that the warehouse workers will be, I'm going to side with Amazon here since they're current employers.
So Amazon, the one thing that they do get criticism on is that it's obviously not going to be a one to one conversion, right? It's not like everyone that works at the warehouse is going to get a job there. I mean, I think that's just the future. Also not everywhere house in America has is Amazon with like a million robots.
And so I think that, well, eventually we will have a lot of warehouse work automated by robots. If someone got laid off today, they could go somewhere else at a different warehouse that doesn't have this. So I think in the short term, we'll just, the jobs will move around a little bit. I don't think it's going to be the end of the world.
In the long term, of course, everyone on the whole planet has to get re-skilled things to AI and robotics. So I think everyone needs to start focusing on that. I don't think that's a big scary thing. Now, I personally think like if we look at the numbers from the world economic forum, 80 million new jobs are going to be created.
I think that there's a lot to do. I think that there's a lot of new things that are going to be needed. And so people should start working on upscaling themselves and going to take classes and courses and all this kind of stuff. And I think there's going to be a lot of opportunity there.
But some people would disagree with me. There is one particular founder at a startup company that thinks everybody's going to get laid off. Robots are going to do everything. And everyone's going to live off government welfare.
I don't think this is going to happen. I don't think this is the future we want. People find fulfillment in their jobs and in their work and in creative processes. If you get laid off and you don't want to go work on being a robot mechanic, maybe you do art or whatever else, it inspires you.
So I think that there'll be a lot of, I think there's going to be value in demand for stuff. So I think people will be fine. I think the world is going to be fine. One thing I wanted to mention is that Amazon is obviously very bullish on this.
And I think we have to take everything with a bit of a grain of salt. I personally think it's only a matter of time before robotics. And I think it's evidence that robotics will replace a lot. But it doesn't mean it's happening tomorrow because Amazon, if you remember, was super bullish on their Amazon Go technology, which was essentially you walk into a store, grab whatever you want, you walk out and it just builds you to your Amazon account.
And they were trying to sell it to a bunch of other retailers. No one else really wanted to buy it. I think a lot of people just felt like Amazon was a big competitor. They didn't want to go on another more revenue pretty much.
Amazon itself scaled that back once everyone found out that mostly it was literally just people in India watching cameras to see what you grab and they were self labeling the items. So it still required people to be working. It wasn't like AI was doing it all. It wasn't perfect.
I think we see a lot from self driving car companies where some self driving robo companies, I can't remember his cruiser Waymo, but kind of got not exposed. But they found out that if the car can't figure out what to do with someone in India or in another country is essentially watching and takes over control of the car and drives it. And so it's not like completely AI autonomous self driving. So anyways, I think we're not like 100% there on a lot of this technology.
Evidently it's getting there. But we have a moment. But it's not like job mass job displacement is coming for the entire world tomorrow. So I think it's going to be interesting.
I will keep you up to date on everything going on in this space as people do start making these kind of job and career shifts as robots do start taking over. I think it's a very fascinating area. Thank you so much for tuning into the podcast. I hope you enjoyed it.
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