AI Stole My Job, and That's Great News for Our Future | Jacob Rangel | TEDxFolsom

we used to chase dragons now we Chase algorithms and uh you know since the dawn of Consciousness we've been driven by our curiosity now ai promises to answer all of our questions make all our dreams come true and it's not even off to a bad start I've seen things you people wouldn't believe AI generated worlds so immersive and intricate that they erased the lines of reality models that can compose Symphonies and novels so rich and profound they capture the essence of what it is to be human all these creations will be lost like lines of

code on a corrupted hard I can't I didn't write this opening in my defense I had one of my assistants Do It um they're AI of course you didn't expect me to write this from scratch I mean that's what's Wild is that uh 18 months ago I would be writing all this stuff from scratch and I wouldn't have any you know virtual writer room of assistance and great minds that are uh in these llms to help me um and that's how fast things change that's how fast we change because the story of artificial intelligence isn't

just about the rise of intelligent machines it's about the transformation of humanity itself and that story starts today I'm an AI Explorer and I want to share my perspective my journey my concerns and my hopes how we might navigate the future ahead so let's wind the clocks back to November 30th 2022 chat GPT comes out it hits the world like a juggernaut you can feel it shake and every other report on TV ends with the person saying and this segment was written by chat gbt that got annoying fast but designers and entrepreneurs could generate code

to build the apps that they could never do before with the help of the llms and throughout the land you can almost hear a collective have relief of high school students everywhere who had to help me write this button boy did we miss out I think like I could have really used a algebra tutor to be honest and it would have never got sick of my questions so all this stuff happens and it's displacement and at the time I was working uh at a startup and as a copywriter I thought I should really learn this

AI stuff two weeks after chat came out I was let go of my job and as an ex copywriter I thought I should really learn this AI stuff so I did I I dove in head first and swam deep and within four months me and a co-founder released an app named prompt crafter uh it was great it uh could do text generation it was so fun to play this new tech uh it also could do pictures so it was multimodal multimodal what's that I don't want to bore you with the brilliant detail but uh it

could do pictures and text one app it was a novel for the time and uh this is the first uh image it actually created that's for sure going to end up in the animals of History I just I just feel it uh so at the time like everyone's doing this right we're all jumping in we're playing with the stuff and and I'm just one of millions of people they're playing with and pushing this technology every day and that's great but as we Marvel at these wonders we must also consider the cost we must also consider

how it's reshaping things in Norse mythology there's a story of Odin you you may heard of his sons Loki and Thor but it it all started with Odin and you know he was just a man and he he wanted to know everything about the universe and he heard that there was a guy out in the Land of the Giants named mirror so he went and he he sought him out and he found the cave and when he went in he saw this old man with a white beard sitting in front of this great pool of

water and he asked him I want to know everything mamir teach me what do I have to do he says you have to drink from the pool of water but first you must pay the price and he said what's that take out one of your eyes and place it in the pool so Odin did and he uh put his eyee and put in the water and was floating up looking at him and he drank from the the pool and he gained all Cosmic knowledge and he saw farther with one eye than he ever did with

two and I think that is a story of humanity and AI right now except there's one big difference is that we don't yet know the price so if you're paying attention there's actually signs of what these price could be of what the cost could be um and I think it's emerging in three critical Dimensions displacement is the first one so what's displacement okay people are going to lose jobs and have to Res skill um I think it's the IMF the international monetary fund they predict that 40% of all jobs will be affected that's a lot

let's say they're wrong by half and it's only 20% still look around that means almost one of every four of us is going to be unemployed or looking for work in the next 10 years and it's not always obvious that AI Bots are directly taking jobs sometimes it's more subversive uh case in point Tyler Perry he has a a huge film studio out in Atlanta 12 sound stages it's bigger than Warner Brothers and uh he was just about ready to pull the trigger on a $800 million expansion and um when he saw this new technology

come out it was a text to video engine named Sora s o r a if you haven't seen it put it in your notes to go home tonight watch the Youtube demo it's about 10 minutes of a handful of e clipse but it'll show you what he saw which is this is where the technology is now and it almost looks Hollywood level quality if he wants to have a a snowy Cabin in the Woods he can just type it but it's not just about all the jobs that were lost on the expansion think about all

the food that'll never be served by Craft Services all the Carpenters and Craftsman that will never raise a hammer or the grips or lighter lighting people that will never bring in stuff all those jobs carved out with one decision because of one product so I think that puts it in perspective moving on to the next potential critical thing we have to worry about is weaponization now we've already seen what disinformation campaigns can do uh and divide us and now there's voice cloning technology where you could think you're talking to a loved one but it could

be puppeteered by a criminal organization a cousin you haven't heard of from a long time he calls you up it sounds just like him and it only takes about 30 seconds of recorded audio right now to clone a voice with pretty good accuracy and it's not just the virtual dimensions of weaponization it's also the physical right now uh the US Marine Corps is testing and training alongside robot dogs with Armament strapped to their back that's no joke that's really happening and in uh Southern California there's a defense Tech startup named andural and they have this

cool technology or kind of scary but it's called lattice and what lattice does is it corresponds with all of their Hardware out in the field so autonomous drones submarines surveillance towers and Soldiers with the equipment and the sensors they have and it's able to ingest all these data streams in real time and essentially play the battlefield like 3D chess have you noticed a pattern whatever this Tech touches becomes more Nimble more intelligent more efficient all while accelerating its own self-development so speed might be the most alarming out of all these Dimensions these critical Dimensions because

it accelerates the first two AI is going so fast it's scarious I know I had to create my own word to describe the velocity of this thing it's really that fast and let's look at the hardware so on the hardware side this is Mo's law every two years let's say the number of transistors on a chip will double so that's not how AI works though AI uses compute so compute is graphic processing units they're just stacked up in the cloud and they're doing heavy heavy crunching almost like Bitcoin mining same thing using that same technology

but it's accelerating at a rate of 10x every six months since November when Chachi BT came out back in 2022 and if you've lived like most of us have through the mors law phase that's felt pretty fast I think but now we're on to another whole level it leaves Mor's law in the dust so we got displacement weaponization and speed and it's not like trying to hit a moving Target it's like trying to aim at a blur got heavy let's go to my special place let's all take a collective breath one two 3 all right

now let's talk Solutions I think the first thing is we need a global AI alignment Council so what does that look like um well the atomic energy commission regulates nuclear energy so we need something that's the same level as same level of vigilance because I believe when AI gets smarter could be 5 years five months maybe 10 years when it gets smarter it's going to be the equivalent of meeting an alien species and we don't know how aliens think so we need a global Force that's funded that's coordinated and that's full of experts that are

AI researchers that are pushing the bounds of trying to understand abstract threat Theory because the way that this will attack us if it does we won't understand it that's how high level it is it might take us years to see the long game it's playing so we need to have a body of people that are coordinated and informed the best Minds in the world working to protect us Watchers on the wall that's one solution the next one is hi hi human investment initiative so there's going to be a big displacement a lot of jobs going

away what are we going to do I think we need to invest in ourselves like never before Singapore has already taken the lead on this and their prime minister has agreed to put a billion dollars behind their reskilling program if you're 40 or above then you can get a free ride and go back to school and they're doing this cool thing where they're mixing the cohorts they want old and young working together the wisdom and experience life experience of the older people working next to the Fearless embracement Tech of the young which would create a

dynamic Workforce and we need to do the same thing the Department of Defense their budget is bloated and it's unfocused why not peel off like a 100 billion a year to reinvest in ourselves because if uh 40% of the population being unemployed or displaced isn't a national security concern I don't know what is so these threats are out there but we have Solutions there's things we can do the good news is the world economic Forum says there's 97 million new jobs coming so that's cool and that's going to help us get started just by 2025

to be clear so that's happening right now but that's even more reason why we need to Res skill and get people back into the workforce and get them reskilled right now so let's let's invest in them and I think this signals a really positive movement those 97 million job figure because we're about to enter the most abundant time in human history there will be money for reskilling there will be money for oversight there will be medical breakthroughs that can extend our lives by decades more and things are going to get wonderfully weird you want to

write and direct your own tent pole movie type the words you want to talk to animals would you like that to be a voice or chat you want to download your dream from last night and play it like a video game grab the controller we're about to enter one of the most fun amazing creative periods we've ever seen but we can't let AI become everything and in fact I think we have a big job to do it's on us to unplug to connect as great as these tools are we can't fall into the same traps

we have before we can't let this amazing Tech divide us like social media has to push us apart we each have a personal responsibility and how we act and how we incorporate this technology into our own lives so be ruthless on how you set your boundaries because the one thing we cannot do is let this technology drive us further apart from where we are right now I actually believe it has the power to bring us together like never before because we have a responsibility to not forget the most important technology the most ancient and sacred

technology and that is human connection [Applause]