Humans Need Not Apply

CGP Grey

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🗓️ 13 August 2014

⏱️ 15 minutes

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## Robots, Etc:

Terex Port automation: http://www.terex.com/port-solutions/en/products/new-equipment/automated-guided-vehicles/lift-agv/index.htm

Command | Cat MieStar System.: http://www.catminestarsystem.com/capability_sets/command

Bosch Automotive Technology: http://www.bosch-automotivetechnology.com/en/de/specials/specials_for_more_driving_safety/automated_driving/automated_driving.html

Atlas Update: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SD6Okylclb8&list=UU7vVhkEfw4nOGp8TyDk7RcQ

Kiva Systems: http://www.kivasystems.com

PhantomX running Phoenix code: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAeQn5QnyXo

iRobot, Do You: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=da-5Uw8GBks&list=UUB6E-44uKOyRW9hX378XEyg

New pharmacy robot at QEHB: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ql1ZHSkUPk

Briggo Coffee Experience: http://vimeo.com/77993254

John Deere Autosteer ITEC Pro 2010. In use while cultivating: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAPfImWdkDw&t=19s

The Duel: Timo Boll vs. KUKA Robot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIIJME8-au8

Baxter with the Power of Intera 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKR_pje7X2A&list=UUpSQ-euTEYaq5VtmEWukyiQ

Baxter Research Robot SDK 1.0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgQLzin4I9M&list=UUpSQ-euTEYaq5VtmEWukyiQ&index=11

Baxter the Bartender: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeTs9tLsUmc&list=UUpSQ-euTEYaq5VtmEWukyiQ

Online Cash Registers Touch-Screen EPOS System Demonstration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yA22B0rC4o

Self-Service Check in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OafuIBDzxxU

Robot to play Flappy Bird: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHkMaWZFePI

e-david from University of Konstanz, Germany: https://vimeo.com/68859229

Sedasys: http://www.sedasys.com/

Empty Car Convoy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPTIXldrq3Q

Clever robots for crops: http://www.crops-robots.eu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=62&Itemid=61

Autonomously folding a pile of 5 previously-unseen towels: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gy5g33S0Gzo#t=94

LS3 Follow Tight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNUeSUXOc-w

Robotic Handling material: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT3XoqJ7lIY

Caterpillar automation project: http://www.catminestarsystem.com/articles/autonomous-haulage-improves-mine-site-safety

Universal Robots has reinvented industrial robotics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQj-1yZFEZI

Introducing WildCat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wE3fmFTtP9g

The Human Brain Project - Video Overview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqMpGrM5ECo

This Robot Is Changing How We Cure Diseases: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra0e97Wiqds

Jeopardy! - Watson Game 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDA-7O1q4oo

What Will You Do With Watson?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_cqBP08yuA

## Other Credits

Mandelbrot set: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGMRB4O922I&list=UUoxcjq-8xIDTYp3uz647V5A

Moore's law graph: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PPTMooresLawai.jpg

Apple II 1977: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxJwy8NsXFs

Beer Robot Fail m2803: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4Lb_3_NMjE

All Wales Ambulance Promotional Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=658aiRoVp6s

Clyde Robinson: https://www.flickr.com/photos/crobj/4312159033/in/photostream/

Time lapse Painting - Monster Spa: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ED14i8qLxr4

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0:00.0	Every human used to have to hunt or gather to survive, but humans are smartly lazy,
0:09.0	so we made tools to make our work easier. From sticks to plows to tractors, we've gone from
0:14.0	everyone needing to make food to modern agriculture with almost no one needing to make food,
0:19.0	and yet we still have abundance. Of course, it's not just farming, it's everything.
0:22.6	We've spent the last several thousand years building tools to reduce physical labor of all kinds.
0:27.6	These are mechanical muscles, stronger, more reliable, and more tireless than human muscles ever could be.
0:33.6	And that's a good thing.
0:34.6	Replacing human labor with mechanical muscles frees people to specialize, and that leaves everyone better off, even those still doing physical labor.
0:43.3	This is how economies grow and standards of living rise. Some people have specialized to be programmers and engineers whose job is to build mechanical minds.
0:51.3	Just as mechanical muscles made human labor less in demand,
0:55.0	so are mechanical minds making human brain labor less in demand. This is an economic revolution.
1:00.0	You may think we've been here before, but we haven't. This time is different.
1:05.0	When you think of automation, you probably think of this, giant, custom-built, expensive, efficient,
1:11.6	but really dumb robots blind to the world and their own work.
1:15.6	They were a scary kind of automation, but they haven't taken over the world because they're only cost-effective in narrow situations.
1:22.6	But they're the old kind of automation. This is the new kind.
1:26.6	Meet Baxter.
1:28.4	Unlike these things which require skilled operators and technicians and millions of dollars,
1:32.5	Baxter has vision and can learn what you want him to do by watching you do it, and he
1:37.0	cost less than the average annual salary of a human worker.
1:40.9	Unlike his older brothers, he isn't pre-programmed for one specific job. He can do whatever
1:45.5	work is within the reach of his arms. Baxter is what might be thought of as a general-purpose robot,
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