How AI can help us be more human | Kai-Fu Lee

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🗓️ 12 April 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

As technology gets smarter and encroaches on more and more jobs, we have to face a question: how do we differentiate the work that humans should do from the work machines should do? In other words, no matter how smart the machines get, what will humans always do better?

In this talk, Kai Fu Lee, technology investor and author of AI Superpowers, offers a surprising answer: love. And proposes nothing short of a redesign of the labor market to prioritize jobs that require compassion. But why wait? After the talk, Modupe explores how we can bring more compassion to the workplace now.

(FYI that lovable robot in the introduction? That’s Kismet, invented by Cynthia Breazeal, born at the MIT Media Lab. For more on sociable robots, check out her work at https://cynthiabreazeal.media.mit.edu/)

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective.
0:08.0	So 15 years ago, I came across a video.
0:12.0	And this video was of this cute little object.
0:16.0	It was a metal object.
0:18.0	And it was a robot.
0:20.0	It had these big blue eyes,
0:23.0	bushy brows,
0:25.0	red plato looking lips,
0:27.0	weird kind of animal looking ears.
0:29.0	And the cutest thing happened.
0:32.0	In the video, it was saying,
0:34.0	I love you.
0:36.0	And my heart melted.
0:40.0	I felt it loved me.
0:42.0	But it's a robot.
0:43.0	And robots can't love.
0:45.0	And that's what's going to always separate us from technology.
0:49.0	Technology doesn't care about us.
0:51.0	So as more jobs are going to be done by robots,
0:54.0	AI, automation.
0:56.0	How does this lack of human touch
0:59.0	separate the work that humans should do
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