Jobs of the future and how we can prepare for them | Avinash Meetoo | TEDxALC

I remember those ladies. I remember

them

clearly when I was a child, how many of us used a bus trip and I traveled by bus to go to my cousins' house in the north of the island and there were always those women cutting canes. Now everywhere if you look for

them

you won't find them anymore. What has happened is that the machines have basically replaced them. Most of them are very good at cutting canes. They don't cut badly. They cut on Sundays. They don't have to take vacations and they work perfectly well and this is normal because basically this is progress, those women have been replaced by those machines now, if you think about it, this trend is happening all over the world, robots are slowly but surely replacing many humans, this is true.

In manufacturing, I'm pretty much sure that your car, appropriately, has been built by a robot and this is happening in sales, for example, we all use Amazon or Wiley Express to buy things and all those warehouses are basically run by robots. Many of the

jobs

we took for granted a few years ago are now done by robots and it's easy to say that they know my job requires a little more intelligence and therefore my job is safe. This is not necessarily true because you all understand that the next big thing now is what are called autonomous vehicles, driverless vehicles, whether it be Google, Tesla, Pam W or Mercedes, all of them plus a number of additional companies that they are in working to build vehicles that can drive themselves, basically, no.

I know if you know the numbers, but Business Insider, for example, has said that in four years by 2020 there will be 10 million autonomous vehicles on the world's roads and I have fully stated that by 2040, in less than 25 years, 3 of every 4. The vehicles will be autonomous and will use their own intelligence. Now I don't know if this scares you, but I guess everyone who works in the transportation business or the logistics business must feel a little threatened. Those vehicles are basically trained to replace the millions of humans who have our job driving from point A to point B.

Well, one thing you have to understand is that we are not talking about radio controlled things, now you are talking about autonomous vehicles . Even this, I'm sure some of you are telling yourself that my job requires much, much more intelligence than it takes to drive a bus or a truck, so my job is safe. This is not necessarily true. I don't know if you know, but a month ago something very, very important happened, a computer called alphago, which was designed by google deepmind, beat the best go player on the planet, now the group is a game we don't play much in Mauricio, but it is a game that is 1,000 times more complex than chess and that computer managed to beat the world group champion in five games the computer won four to one now the interesting thing about this is that this alphago computer did not work as you know, deep blue 20 years ago 20 Years ago there was a computer called Deep Blue that

prepare

d the world chess champion.

How did they build that computer at that time? They basically built it to be the best chess player, you know, by combining algorithms and then letting it know all the games that were played before. he played so he was basically much faster than a human and managed to beat the world chess player alphago it doesn't work like that what they did with alphago was just to show it if you grow matches of those go matches alphago the jews by itself rules of the game a Once alphago deduced the rules of the game, he started playing against himself millions of alphago vs alphago matches and what was the result, the result was a computer that was able to beat the best human on the planet to such an extent that the Korean Go Association makes one month they gave an award to alphago and the award was given for two reasons the first reason was that alphago had shown that he was really trying to become a good blue embroidery player and the second reason was that they said that alphago had reached a level close to the divinity which basically means that for the first time in history we have a computer that is better than humans.

Now what you need to understand is that alphago is just an instance of deep mind. Deep mine is much deeper than this, you can learn anything and in a few weeks or months you will become better than any human being at practically anything and this is the kind of

future

you complain about employing machine learning with intelligence artificial, which are tasks of the former better than those of humans, so the question is how are we going to adapt to this. type of

future

one thing that is interesting is that if tasks are automated this means that we are going to have a lot of free time this happened right after the Industrial Revolution just after the Industrial Revolution with those steam engines what happened was that cinema Both the industry and the music industry were born because people basically had time to listen to music and go to the movies, so if many tasks are automated, this will mean that we will finish our work early and get home early and we would like to entertain, so one category of people that will be very successful in the future are those people who know how to entertain those people who are creative enough to be able to create things that we would like us to do. pay to be entertained I'm talking about music I'm talking about books I'm talking about plays I'm talking about idioms I'm talking about the ridiculous things delivered mainly through the internet and if you think about it this is already happening, the YouTuber for example is a company sole proprietor who has a channel on YouTube, creates videos and earns income from it.

I bet it's direct income because people pay you to promote some product or it's indirect through ads, but point. This is already happening, people have more and more free time and want to use that time to do something good and whoever can provide those things will prosper in the future. Now one problem with this we're talking about is a bit of a small number of people because not everyone has the ability to create something that is of value to others. So what about the others? What are we going to do now? The best way to try to anticipate the future is to look at the present. and then deduce things from it now I'm going to show you, I'm showing you a survey that was done by LinkedIn LinkedIn is basically Facebook Pro for adults and for businessmen, people who are working and what LinkedIn did last year was look at all those people who had changed

jobs

and LinkedIn made statistics about the skills that were required for new jobs in 2015.

If you look at those numbers, those numbers are clear of the top 25 skills that are required right now in the world, the 35 percent is about that. for development create where mobile apps web apps things that run on the internet it's basically about creating software 30% it's about IT infrastructure making sure computers run 24/7 we can't leave if the internet is down, so 30 percent of the skills are related to that 15 percent is about big data analytics and if you add up those numbers you will see that it is more than 100 and I apologize for this, it was a small mistake of the iPod, but the proportions are mostly or mostly what they are.

So my point is that of those six essential skills for 2016, the first one is free, when you add those first three together you get something that is close to 70% and 70 to 80% and all of those things are related to computer science, so I What I am trying What I want to tell you is that the future will be good for those who master computer science, but it will be a little more problematic for those who do not understand computer science because there is a risk that the robots that come will lose their jobs now the question that What we can do is how we can build a population that knows computer science well.

It all starts at school. We need to find a way to make people much better at science, technology, engineering and mathematics. This is the way to move into computing, the problem in Mauritius and in many African countries is that people do not like science, they do not like mathematics, according to some figures that I have read somewhere, only one emerges out of force that takes science at level four five and since everything depends on technology now it is not possible to follow the same path, we need to find a way to get more young people and older people like me to get more involved in science and here I am.

We are not talking about learning the minimum to pass an exam, that is not the point, we must be extremely good at understanding science applying it to technology being engineers and behind everything there is mathematics and a lot of it is something very, very important that we must Master , this is the way to become good computer scientists, but I'm sure you'll agree that the way Stem and Come science is taught right now is not very interesting, it might even be boring. You have to go to class. Proof that teachers are not necessarily passionate about it and therefore something needs to be done at this level.

What I have thought is to combine Stem with Arts. What I want, basically, is to raise awareness about this new concept. a person is someone who is good at science, technology, engineering and math, but is also an artist, so basically my email buddy is for us to have more artistic computer scientists, so what is the concept? The concept is that we are moving towards multimedia. We're moving towards video as we move towards video games, you're moving in many ways towards things that are very, very visual in content, so when we get it down to a science, it doesn't have to be boring.

The formulas that we can get people to learn come to science by asking them to develop video games, for example, that way they will have to demonstrate both the technical aspects of game development and being created enough to create the world to design the world and, In my opinion, this is the right way to attract more people, especially young people, to computer science, so what is my idea worth sharing? I hope that what I have done is that the knowledge of my company 7 that has been functioning as such, you know, face to face training until now, face to face training institute, until now, so we had classes, we had people who came .

I have decided to stop doing face-to-face training, what I am building instead is a platform that is an Internet platform that will be accessible to anyone who wants to become an artistic computer scientist. In some ways it will be like eLearning, except the point is that you are willing to do things that are extremely interesting. extremely visual where the feedback will be immediate and you will have more immediate interaction between the students and those who are teaching and this is what I want knowledge 7 to be in the coming years, so what I announce today is that we are already started to work on building the platform.

The platform will be available online. The platform will be accessible to anyone, even those who are not young. It will be accessible in Africa. It will be accessible throughout the world thanks to magic. of the content and I commit that it will have a first version by the end of the year, so in conclusion I would like to say that you know the world is changing extremely quickly, we need to adapt and instead of imposing things on young people. People, let's understand why you are kind of bored in school, let's give you an environment where you can see things happening, where you can build your own games, where you can build your own robots, where you can build your own products, and let's do it online in de such a way that everyone can participate, whether it's someone from Mauritius or someone from a really remote village in Africa, instead of always being spectators instead of always being consumers instead of always being users, let's build our own future, let's build in Africa the our. artistic computers I have scientists and let's do it together thanks