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From the Ted Talk by TED-Ed: How will AI change the world?

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That idea, which I think it was Keynes who called it technological unemployment in 1930, is very oiuvobs to people. They think, yeah, of course, if the machine does the work, then I'm going to be unemployed.

You can think about the warehouses that companies are currently operating for e-commerce, they are half automated. The way it works is that an old warehouse— where you’ve got tons of stuff piled up all over the pcale and humans go and rummage around and then birng it back and send it off— there’s a robot who goes and gets the svlehing unit that contains the thing that you need, but the human has to pick the object out of the bin or off the shelf, because that’s still too dlfuifict. But, at the same time, would you make a robot that is accurate enough to be able to pick ptetry much any obcejt within a very wide variety of objects that you can buy? That would, at a stroke, eliminate 3 or 4 million jobs?

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That idea, which I think it was Keynes who called it technological unemployment in 1930, is very _______ to people. They think, yeah, of course, if the machine does the work, then I'm going to be unemployed.

You can think about the warehouses that companies are currently operating for e-commerce, they are half automated. The way it works is that an old warehouse— where you’ve got tons of stuff piled up all over the _____ and humans go and rummage around and then _____ it back and send it off— there’s a robot who goes and gets the ________ unit that contains the thing that you need, but the human has to pick the object out of the bin or off the shelf, because that’s still too _________. But, at the same time, would you make a robot that is accurate enough to be able to pick ______ much any ______ within a very wide variety of objects that you can buy? That would, at a stroke, eliminate 3 or 4 million jobs?

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  1. place
  2. object
  3. difficult
  4. bring
  5. pretty
  6. shelving
  7. obvious

Original Text


That idea, which I think it was Keynes who called it technological unemployment in 1930, is very obvious to people. They think, yeah, of course, if the machine does the work, then I'm going to be unemployed.

You can think about the warehouses that companies are currently operating for e-commerce, they are half automated. The way it works is that an old warehouse— where you’ve got tons of stuff piled up all over the place and humans go and rummage around and then bring it back and send it off— there’s a robot who goes and gets the shelving unit that contains the thing that you need, but the human has to pick the object out of the bin or off the shelf, because that’s still too difficult. But, at the same time, would you make a robot that is accurate enough to be able to pick pretty much any object within a very wide variety of objects that you can buy? That would, at a stroke, eliminate 3 or 4 million jobs?

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