Amazon offers peek at new human jobs in an AI bot world

The technical industry seems to have two thoughts when it comes to where human employees fit into the AI-driven world that they create: they think that all jobs, except perhaps their own ones, will be done by bots. (VC Marc Andreessen seems to think That his work as an investor can never be automated).

Or they think that bots will do the icky, boring work, act like human companions in jobs, while people do brand new jobs that creates the bone revolution. The latter is the one who is most supported by historical evidence. The World Economic Forum predicts that 92 million roles will be moved Due to current technological trends, but that 170 million new jobs will be created.

For those who do not have the economic power, or the intellectual interest, to obtain a master’s degree in AI and Machine Learning-especially the people who now visit unskilled labor roles such as warehouse staff look for the future-filled future for them?

Amazon offered a hint of one kind of path on Wednesday when the great progress announced in the direction of replacing warehouse workers through his new Vulcan robot that can ‘feel’.

“Vulcan helps to make work safer by taking on ergonomically challenging tasks, while we create opportunities for our teammates to increase their skills in robotics maintenance,” CEO Andy Jassy Posted on X.

In one breath, Amazon Blog post About Vulcan described how the robot will work with people, collecting items from the highest and lowest shelves of the warehouse, so that people don’t have to climb or bend ladders all day. People will then collect items that are only stored in the middle and/or items that the new ‘feeling’ robot still cannot pick up in one way or another.

In the next breathing, Amazon talks about how it trains a small number of warehouse workers to become robot technicians, because it uses the bone for more rolling role.

“These robots – which play a role in completing 75% of customer orders – have created hundreds of new categories of jobs at Amazon, from robot -like floor monitors to on -site reliability maintenance engineers,” said the blog post, adding that it offers a job solution program for some employees.

Although Amazon did not say that, this would clearly not be 1: 1 conversion. It would not require the army of people to supervise the robots in the same way as they need to fulfill warehouse orders directly. Nor would everyone have the construction or desire to become robot mechanics.

But the fact that Amazon included information about the retraining program in addition to its Vulcan announcement is useful.

That is because so far there has been very little evidence of what the post-robots-do-all-the-jobs look like for working people. (One founder of AI Startup even suggested that in an AI-Does all-Jobs world, people in one way or another would simply live on well-being.)

But perhaps, instead of groceries, there would be ‘automation monitors’, just as if there would be a clerk supervision of every self -check -up today. Instead of fast food chefs, employees would supervise the cooking bots, and so on. Robots run becomes like serving a PC: almost everyone needs to know how to do it to be deployable.

On the other hand, this completely bone future may never really come true. Bots can only remain the competence of the largest and most deep business companies-as with Amazon or how they are used in things such as automotive production-while the vast majority of retail, restaurants and managing jobs are still being done by people. At least for tens of years more.

Remember that Amazon is a company that tried to sell his Just-Walk-out Automation Amazon Go Technology To a wider store for retail/supermarkets. The retail trade is not too fond of the biggest competitor, Amazon, and was not very interested. The technology turned out to be later Using people in India to watch and label videosAnd even Amazon later scaled back on its use. Such technology (by Amazon or others) is hardly visible in the wild today.