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AI job replacement.
Continuing with our topic from last time AI, job replacement.
Why?
Because this is a huge topic.
I think this is the biggest topic, the biggest risk for most of us, the biggest topic in the area, in the areas of jobs career, financial safety and security.
And of course, you know this also applies internationally business English, any use of English internationally in your job or in your career.
And of course, it's in the news all the time.
AI, AI, AI.
But I think we should get more specific because it is a major change.
It's happening right now.
Right now.
This is not something for the far future.
Something that is happening right now and over the next, let's say, five years huge changes to so many industries because of ai.
I just read, in fact just after the show i did last time about, you know, the job losses, the predictions how many jobs will be lost, replaced by ai, you know.
And there were different.
Yeah, it was hundreds of millions, up to a billion in the next five to ten years.
Huge, and i told you last time i discussed how i saw, when i visited san francisco, there were these ai robot cars all over the road driving everywhere.
It's called waymo.
Look on their website, w-a-y-m-o dot com.
All right, these are taxis.
No drivers, no human drivers.
There were not just a couple of them, there were, I don't know, probably hundreds of them.
They were everywhere in the city driving around making money, taking people, driving them all around the city as taxis robot taxis.
This is not the far future.
It's now.
What happens with these huge changes like this, it can be very scary, right?
Because we don't know exactly what's going to happen.
We hear all the news, which makes us usually get more upset, more worried.
And when it's kind of an unknown, it's more scary.
So the way to deal with this is not to run away from it, not to just hope things will be okay, and not to be afraid, because none of those will help you.
What we've got to do is learn more.
And I'm starting to dive in a lot now into AI.
I'm just playing around with it just because I want to understand it.
So I can help you.
And this is a topic that connects very directly to business English.
A lot of you learn English for business and career, job, money, reasons, motivations.
So I've been diving more into AI.
I've been using Gab.ai, G-A-B.ai.
I like it because they have a lot of models, a lot of the different AI, open source AI right there on the same website.
So I don't have to go all over.
They've got ChatGPT.
They've got DeepSeek, they've got I don't know if it's pronounced Imogen, I guess is what it's pronounced.
It's one for images.
But they've got a bunch of them, so it's very interesting to play around with different ones, do the same thing in different ones and see the results, because often the results are very different and, depending what you're trying to do, one ai model might be better than another, right?
But let's get into our main topic first, which is job replacement.
Okay, so i discussed the mckinsey institute prediction 1 billion jobs lost or replaced.
Now That's scary.
That's scary.
Let's talk into it.
I did more research.
I used AI to do the research.
And here's what I found.
So first of all, the highest risk, let's review.
What are the highest risk industries?
Industries.
Which industries are using AI now already a lot and starting to replace jobs, and which are planning to do it.
And, by the way, right after I watched that show, I forgot to say this.
I read Amazon has fired about 30000 people in the last two months.
And guess what they said in their statement?
They're replacing them with AI.
30,000.
So I think it was like 12, 15,000 last month, another 15,000 this month fired from Amazon.
That's quite a lot.
And they said in their statement, they're looking for more opportunities to replace people with ai.
So this is not, this is just the beginning.
Already 30 000 in the last two months, and they're looking for more and more opportunities to replace jobs with ai.
Okay, and amazon's a big company, but that's just one small example, because they're all doing it.
So first let's talk about the industries.
The industry
So this, I use several AI models to, you know, which industries are most at risk for AI replacement.
Healthcare is one.
I mean, that's one of the safe ones.
Sorry, we'll get to that.
That's the good news.
The bad news.
Admin administration, basic administration, you know paperwork, paper shuffling, that kind of thing.
Man, that is, AI is targeting that big time.
If you're in that sort of field, You should look to maybe change careers.
Finance and accounting.
Not so much the high, high, high levels of accounting, but basic bookkeeping and accounting.
We discussed this last time.
Easily taken over by AI, already happening.
If you are a basic accountant or bookkeeper, you might consider changing industries.
You might have to change careers.
Customer service.
This is one we all, as customers, I'm sure you've dealt with already, right?
On the web.
Now on the internet, if you're buying something, you go to a website and you have questions about the product.
They all have these AI chats now, right?
It's not human.
And even many times they have AI email systems, customer service.
So you send them a request and you get an AI answering your email.
So they're replacing a lot of those people.
This includes call centers as well, right?
For a while, call centers were a big employer for a lot of opportunity especially, you know, for like people in India and some other countries as well.
But now it's cheaper for them just to use AI for a lot of that.
So those jobs if you're in that industry, if you're doing that, I suggest again consider changing careers.
This is a strange one.
I didn't even think of this.
Oil and gas administration.
It's the oil and the gas industry in their admin jobs.
They're specifically looking to use AI and replace a lot of workers.
Customer service, I mentioned last time as well.
We know this not only online, but also even just going into shops and restaurants more and more.
You just go into a shop and they have a tablet of some kind a screen and you just put your order in and you don't talk to anybody.
You don't say, I want to, you know, I want two hamburgers and a Coke.
You just put it on the screen and it goes back to the people cooking it.
And, of course, as I said, as robotics get better too, with AI even the cooks will be replaced right.
So pretty much like a whole restaurant, like a fast food restaurant could be run by robots and AI.
Maybe one guy there just managing everything if something goes wrong.
But, you know, they can replace most of the workers.
They will.
And then manufacturing, we mentioned.
That's an obvious one.
Factories already have been using robotics a lot.
And this is going to keep increasing.
And then finally, transportation.
Transportation.
As I said, San Francisco already happening.
This one's going to happen very fast, I think.
The taxi industry, goodbye.
If you're an Uber driver, start looking to change careers, because you're going to lose your job, I'm pretty sure, in the next few years.
They're going to replace all those drivers with just robot and AI self-driving cars.
Then a little longer term, just because they're more expensive.
They'll replace truck drivers as well.
Maybe a little longer on that one, but it's going to happen.
So that's the bad news.
If you're in one of those industries, strongly consider right now learning other skills and planning or jumping to a different industry, different career.
You know, we have to do this.
I did this in my own life.
You know, I did this.
I used to be a social worker.
Then I became an English teacher.
Then I became a business owner and an entrepreneur.
So even myself, that's three.
And then before that, I worked all kinds of different jobs.
So this is just part of life.
You know, things change so fast now.
Technology that you cannot just plan to have one career your whole life.
You're probably going to have to make some big changes.
That's the bad news, or the scary news, I suppose.
For some people, a lot of people, here's the good news.
What are the safest industries, or what are the industries where jobs might actually increase?
Now, these many of these jobs will be using AI, but there still may be increases in the number of employees, the number of jobs.
So these are areas you might want to look to, to focus on, if you want to, if you need to change careers, Maybe change to one of these.
Number one is healthcare.
That's an obvious one, right?
Healthcare.
People always need healthcare, right?
And this would be both what I would call corporate or industrial healthcare hospitals, doctors' offices, all that typical stuff.
They're using AI.
Some jobs in those fields like basic tech and data analysts may be but others may be created.
So in general, healthcare can still be a good one.
And then, like as I said last time, alternative healthcare outside the industrial healthcare system, I think has huge huge, huge opportunities and potential.
That's good news.
Training, coaching, and education.
Now, as I said before, basic training, basic education, just being like a boring teacher who just Reads from a book and just teaches really basic stuff.
That's not safe.
I think that's hugely in danger because, you know, videos can do that.
AI systems can do that.
All that can be put on computers.
So your basic, I don't know, high school teacher, I think, is in danger.
But more creative, more motivational, more inspirational, more entertaining.
Even teachers educators trainers high-level, very skilled teachers, trainers and educators probably good opportunities there.
And especially combining with AI, which we're going to talk about in a minute.
Skilled trades, I've talked about this one in the past.
Plumbing electrician repair, especially like repairing robots, repairing uh systems like that.
That will continue to be a need.
So that's good strategy leadership management.
So according to the ai res models i used, you know management leadership can pro will probably see some job growth compared to lower level workers.
So learn management skills, leadership skills And higher level analytics right.
Being able to think and analyze data.
Creativity, creative jobs.
Again, probably combining AI, like just a basic artist.
That's, you know, AI is doing that now, right?
In fact, I'm playing around now.
I'm using AI to make thumbnails for my YouTube videos just to see what it can do.
And you know it's not bad and it's way cheaper than me paying an artist to make a thumbnail.
And i can't do it.
I'm not an artist at all.
So you know, you see, on my youtube channel the ones i make is just words and like some colors, right.
There's no graphics at all.
Uh, i could pay someone to make those.
That'd be kind of it's kind of expensive to get someone to do that.
But now i just go on an ai and it, you know, makes pretty good images, pretty good graphics, not bad.
I just type in what i want and It can be a little frustrating sometimes getting something I want, but eventually, if you keep prompting it, you can get something that's pretty good.
So when I say creative, it needs to be someone who is making the vision of what you want.
You don't necessarily have to be the person drawing it.
A lot of creative people will be using AI, but they have to have the big picture, just like in say, writing or storytelling, or say, writing a script for a movie.
You could use AI to do that, but AI is going to produce predictable, normal scripts usually.
So you still need a human prompting and using the AI and editing it, et cetera, to make something excellent, something creative, something different.
And then another obvious one mechanical engineering, especially in the areas of, like robotics and combining that with AI again right.
So mechanical engineering specifically, mechanical engineering and robotics and robotic engineering.
So those are the industries.
Next are skills.
Skills are things you can use kind of in any job, right?
So again, what is the AI itself?
I use several models for this.
These are the ones they agreed on.
What skills, job skills, things you can do that you can use in lots of different jobs will be helpful in this age of AI.
Help you compete and still have jobs, get better jobs, even with AI.
Number one, the obvious one, is using AI, being good at using it, prompting it.
Prompting is when you ask it to do something, right?
Make an image of a robot.
Okay, so you could do that and it'll give you some stuff.
Maybe it's not what you want.
So how do you get the AI to do what you want?
To give you the information that's useful to create the image you want, to create the video you want?
That can be a little tricky.
It can be tricky.
So those are called prompts when you tell it to do something or when you ask it a question.
And doing that skillfully can take some practice and some research.
So learning to do that It will definitely be something that is kind of a basic job skill, I'd say across all different jobs.
How do you learn it?
There are some courses.
I'm going to mention a few at the end here.
Some free courses.
You can learn basic prompting and get better at doing it, so that you can use AI more efficiently, more effectively to get what you need.
But I think most of it is just playing around with it.
And playing around with different ones, I think, is important.
A lot of people just do chat GPT only, but chat GPT has weaknesses, a lot of weaknesses.
And if you only focus on one, you know you're kind of limited by the weaknesses and you won't understand.
So if you start playing around with several, you do deep seek, you do some of the Chinese ones, you do some, you know the Silicon Valley ones, you play around with ones from different companies, open source, etc.
Ones that focus on specific things, like business, or you know programming or science or writing, then you'll start to get a feeling for which ones are good at some things, which ones are bad at certain things.
And that's part of knowing how to use AI is knowing which AI to use for specific things and knowing when it's not performing well, when it's giving you they give a lot of junk answers, so you've got to be able to know that it's giving you a junk answer, and that's part of the next skill is analyzing data.
So you really need to know and understand whatever you're using the ai for.
If you're using it for engineering well, you need to really really, really know the engineering well, because it might give you wrong numbers, it might give you mistakes And if you don't recognize that, you could really hurt your career by using it and getting bad results.
So very important.
Creativity and innovation.
This is something the AIs are not great at.
They kind of, you know, because they're drawing from a lot of things and just recombining, which is part of creativity.
They can be somewhat, they can come across or make results that seem kind of creative.
But for true creativity, real innovation, You know, you need humans doing that and directing that.
The problem is our school systems teach the opposite, right?
After 12 years or more, 16 years or more of school, most people are terrified of creativity.
Creativity means you have to take risks.
You have to try different things, new things.
You have to be willing to fail and to look foolish even.
And to do foolish stuff, that's recreativity.
And since most people are afraid to do that because of all their years in the school system, you can have a big advantage by taking more risks, being more creative, being more flexible, which is the next one.
Flexibility, being able to adapt, being able to change.
Most people are afraid of it.
They don't want to do it.
A lot of people in those industries I mentioned, they're not going to change their career.
They're going to try to hold on, hoping, hoping, hoping that their job isn't replaced until it is.
But if you're creative and if you're not afraid to take risk, and if you're flexible, then you'll do it now.
You'll act quickly when you see what's coming.
You'll take action quickly.
You'll be flexible.
You'll be willing to try a completely different career, learn new skills that you didn't have before.
Very important skill, mindset, whatever.
I mentioned before sales, communication, that kind of thing.
Emotional intelligence is a big one.
Empathy, you know, those human qualities, those face-to-face qualities are very very, very important.
Skills are very, very, very important.
Along with that I didn't mention last time, but the ability to do public speaking and to make presentations.
Big, big, big, big.
This is another great one.
All of these position you for higher level, like management leadership, higher level jobs that involve more thinking, more creativity, more leadership, more human communication.
That's the general idea here, those kind of skills you want, because those are the jobs that will continue while a lot of the lower level jobs are being replaced.
So what are your strategies to survive?
Number one switch industries, as i said.
Number two develop these skills i mentioned, but not just one skill.
You need two or three skills, and what you want to do here's kind of the formula.
Number one you want to Choose an industry, a job, an industry, a specific area that will continue to have jobs.
Right.
So avoid the high risk ones.
So that's number one.
And you need to be really good at it.
So let's say mechanical engineer.
Well, you need to be a really good mechanical engineer, not just an average mechanical engineer.
So be really good at your job.
But that's just basic.
The next thing is you want to combine it with AI.
This is a basic formula.
You take whatever your job is.
I don't care what it is.
Teacher, writer, programmer, engineer, nurse.
And then you combine it with AI.
Start finding ways to use AI with your job or career in a way that will Make you better.
Make your job performance better.
And then part three of the formula is add two or three of those other skills I mentioned.
Like sales, marketing, creativity, data analysis, right?
Presentations and public speaking.
So those three.
You're really good at your job.
Let's say nurse.
Let's just pick something like that.
Nurse.
Or physical therapist.
Physical therapist.
I like that one.
Physical therapist.
Become a really good physical therapist.
What does that mean by become really good?
It means having good knowledge and good training, but I think it also means that you're different.
This is a theme I've talked about so many times.
You're not like every other physical therapist if you're doing things the same way as every other physical therapist.
If you use the same exercises, the same approach everything, just like everyone else.
Well, guess what?
You're the same.
Easy to replace.
An AI can replace that or at least can reduce the number of jobs.
You're not competitive.
To be competitive, this is part of marketing.
This is part of sales.
You've got to be different.
You've got to stand out.
You've got to be different.
This is good news and bad news.
The bad news is most people are afraid to be different.
They're afraid to stand out.
They're afraid to be noticed.
Oh, why are you doing it this way?
Everyone else is doing other things.
But that's also good news, because everybody else is afraid to be different thanks to school and other reasons.
It means if you are a little different, if you are a little creative, if you're willing to try some new approaches, some different things, you can gain a huge advantage.
You stand out.
You're not the same as everybody else.
This will give you great job opportunities.
Now you might lose a job because of that.
Okay yeah, in the short term you're looking at one job.
If you're working at some big place and they don't like creativity and you try to do different things, maybe they won't like it and you might lose your job.
It happened to me as a teacher.
Okay, in a couple schools I was trying and I was trying to innovate, trying all these new methods and types of lessons and yeah, a couple of the schools I worked at did not like that.
They just wanted me to read from the textbook.
So in that little looking at it, just the short term, it seemed like it was a risk.
But the looking at it bigger, over years, my whole career being different helped me tremendously, got me more and more jobs and eventually, of course, getting my own business.
But it's got me more students.
It's been a huge benefit.
So you can't focus just on right now because these changes are coming.
And if you're just the same as everyone else, you are at risk.
Huge risk.
You need to be different.
So in that area of like a physical therapist, the reason I chose physical therapist is my son we.
We do a lot of different kinds of therapies for him.
And, you know, the typical physical therapy stuff just wasn't very helpful.
So I start looking for other people and I found people who are doing some really interesting things.
They are doing some of those exercises that are common, but they're combining it with all these other interesting approaches and technologies.
And those people stand out.
And guess what?
They have a lot.
They've got good businesses.
They have a lot of followers and they have a lot of happy customers like me who are looking to help themselves or people in their families, looking for something that's not just the same as everybody else.
So be different.
That's part of your being excellent in your job.
Then use AI.
Use AI to research different ideas and to be creative.
Like, oh, what can I do?
What else is out there that's different?
Use AI to analyze large amounts of research.
Use AI to help you be creative and to market yourself.
And then those other skills, the third part, other skills.
I think sales and marketing is a big skill.
Job searching is a huge skill.
You need to be good at job searching.
Job searching and job interviewing, those are separate skills.
You might be really good at what you do, but if you are bad at job interviewing, you're going to have fewer opportunities.
If you're bad at selling yourself with resumes and letters and phone calls, you're really limiting your career and your job possibilities a lot.
But if you're good at those things, if you're really good at marketing yourself, that's all it is.
Job searching is just marketing.
It's marketing and sales, that's all it is.
But you're doing it for yourself instead of a product.
Okay, you're marketing meaning you're using, you know resumes letters, a website would be a great idea.
A personal website, a professional website, possibly social media, like having your own podcast, for example.
That's connected to what you do, your career, your job skills.
All of those things are just, it's just marketing for yourself, for your career.
And then a job interview is just a sales presentation.
Face to face, right?
It might be, You know, through the screen it might be like a live call, or it might be face to face, sitting in a room with people.
But that is just a sales presentation.
But you're you are the product, right?
You're presenting yourself.
You're selling yourself.
So people just don't understand this.
That's why I don't like a lot of the, a lot of the books and a lot of the advice you get online about searching for jobs.
It's it's garbage.
It's garbage.
They treat it like it's some different thing.
They don't recognize, they don't teach you that it's just sales and marketing.
That's all it is.
And you don't have to follow what everybody else does.
In fact, in marketing, doing the same as everybody else, again, it's death.
You don't stand out at all.
So if you just do the same thing, you send in the same basic kind of resume that everybody else does.
You send in the same kind of cover letter everybody else, or cover email or whatever.
If you're just doing it like everybody else, following those those same approaches, congratulations.
Now you look the same as everybody else.
That's not sales, that's terrible marketing.
The whole idea of marketing is to stand out, to get attention.
So if your resume, if your letters, if your phone calls are not getting attention, you're already lost.
You're already losing out on huge opportunities and you're making job searching much much, much more stressful.
In my business English course, my business English course, I teach you a great approach to this.
I teach you how to market and sell yourself.
You learn business English, but you also learn a great system for this.
It's at my website, EffortlessEnglishClub.com.
I highly recommend that course just to learn how to be good.
That'd be great at job searching and getting jobs.
It's really good.
You can use it in your own language.
You're also going to learn business English.
So EffortlessEnglishClub.com, get my business English course.
There's my sales presentation to you.
All right.
Now, last thing real quick.
I said I'd give you a few free courses.
So, if you want to learn some, If you're just starting out with AI and you want to learn how to do it better, use it more skillfully.
There's some free courses you can do.
There's tons of them out there.
These are just three I found.
Chat GPT for everyone.
Just put that in the search.
Chat GPT for everyone course.
Just do a search for that.
You'll find it.
Course number two, Generative AI, and it's called Prompt Engineering Basics.
That's pretty long.
Generative, G-E-N-E-R-A-T-I-V-E, Generative AI, Prompt Engineering Basics.
That's by IBM, right, the company IBM, and it's on the Coursera website.
It's a free course, Coursera.
So if you just get on that Coursera website and search IBM AI course or prompt engineering basics by IBM, you'll find it.
And then another one is called Google Cloud Prompt Engineering.
And the website is the Google Cloud Skills Boost.
Skills Boost.
Just do a search for that.
Google Cloud Skills Boost.
And then just put prompt engineering or AI prompting, something like that.
You'll find it.
Okay, so those are three, and they'll start giving you a basic idea.
And then finally, my last recommendation is for Gab.ai, G-A-B.ai.
And the reason I recommend Gab.ai is because they have a lot of models.
So if you get on Gab.ai, you can play around with ChatGPT, DeepSeek.
There's tons of them.
Let me see here.
I can pull it up really quick.
How many do they have?
Oh, I closed it.
Oh, no, here it is.
Models.
I mean, tons of them.
They have reasoning.
They've got Claude, GPT, Gwen, Kimi, Hermes.
They have image generation.
They've got about seven or eight of them.
Uh, they've got one one that's web connected.
They've got a bunch.
So i recommend doing it because it allows you again to play like, for example, just doing something really simple like making the thumbnail image for a youtube video.
So i tried that in a bunch of different ones.
They were surprisingly bad.
They were surprisingly bad at following my prompts.
I tried to tell them to put it in the shape of a youtube.
You know, I said 16 to 9 ratio.
It's called an aspect ratio.
An image AI should understand that.
I tried three of them, and they kept giving me square images.
No matter how many times I told them to give me a rectangular image.
I prompted them every way I could.
Super frustrating and annoying.
And finally, the Google one is the one that worked the best.
It allowed me to choose the shape, right? ask the ratio, the dimensions that I wanted.
And it gave me something not surprising.
Google is, you know, owns YouTube.
So prompting for a YouTube thumbnail and get it was really simple and easy and produced pretty good results.
So my point is that you want to play around with different ones because they have different strengths and weaknesses.
All right.
I want to go to some basic quick questions and answers.
And then we are done for today.
Saludos desde Ecuador.
Greetings from Ecuador, says Danilo Miranda.
Hello to you.
Someone says I'm watching from Myanmar.
Hello.
We have to reinvent our jobs, says Francisco Perez.
Indeed, we do.
We do and you know, it doesn't matter if you like it or not a lot of things I don't like about it.
Honestly, that don't excite me, but it's happening.
That's just the truth of it.
It's happening.
We don't really get to vote about it.
These big companies are going to do it.
Governments are investing in it.
They want to replace us.
So this is just the truth.
So you got to do what you can do to survive, to be able to take care of yourself and your family.
That's just the way it is.
We have to adapt.
Yeah, we're going to work for the AI, maybe.
Alex Freeman says, what is your prediction for the next five years?
What trends do you expect?
Thank you.
I expect in the next five years, massive, massive upheaval and changes.
It's, you know, this is planned.
It's not, none of this is happening accidentally.
You can get on the.
You know all the various evil globalist websites like the World Economic Forum and et cetera.
You know, they all have this magic number of 2030, the year 2030.
It's clear they have huge, huge changes planned.
Not good changes for us, let's face it.
For that year of 2030.
So the next four or five years, I expect AI... I expect huge job losses from AI.
I also expect huge economic crashes and upheavals.
We're seeing it now the dollars weakening weakening, weakening.
You know gold and silver are shooting up.
So if you invested in gold and silver, you're in great shape, but if not, you know a lot of problems.
The yen, the japanese yen is, you know, has been collapsing.
Now they're trying to stop it, but you know, i think, that you're going to just see these huge financial upheavals and changes.
I think war will continue.
It's, you know, it's very uh, volatile.
The american empire is trying to hold on as the dollar starts collapsing.
They're trying to create a whole new, you know, system to control everybody, to replace the old uh, american empire one and uh so yeah, a scary time, i think, a huge economic collapses, lots of job losses, currency uh changes and collapses.
It's hard to predict exactly what right, but i just say overall, a lot of crisis, and this will extend also, you know, to war.
You can see that, you know right, iran is always in america, always a possibility.
Russia and america, china and america in america is eager to fight everybody, it seems, uh well, the american government and the people who control it.
So anyway uh, all that just means, i think, a lot.
It's going to be a tough, scary five or more years with huge changes, and now is not the time to try to be safe.
Now is not the time to try to just keep doing exactly what you're doing.
Now is the time to, you know aggressively, learn new skills, try new things, become flexible, take chances.
Okay, don't just sit and hope for the best, because i think that's a terrible strategy.
I think people who do that are the most in danger, because there are going to be, you know, hundreds of millions, possibly a billion, jobs lost and big, big changes.
So you, When things are changing and things like this, you've got to change faster than the world's changing.
This is the mindset to have, okay?
Diddy Fitness says in my opinion, if you're earning money while sitting down, so like working at a desk or an office, artificial intelligence is dangerous for you.
Yeah, but not only that.
Not only that, because there's don't forget that AI is being combined with robotics.
So, you know, like, let's say, like I said, cooking meals.
How hard will it really be to replace cooks with robots?
I don't, not very hard at all in most restaurants.
Not just fast food either.
You know, maybe the top top, high end, you know, celebrity chefs and things just are going to have that.
But you know, for basic cooking in most fast food and even mid-level restaurants the majority of restaurants more and more and more they're going to become automated, more and more automated.
So the same goes for waiters and waitresses.
Like in America.
I'll tell you, as an American, I won't cry if a lot of waiters and waitresses get replaced, because it's ridiculous.
We have this tipping culture.
So all our meals cost, like you know, 20 more because of the tipping, and you're tipping, you're expected.
There's all this pressure to tip in this culture, even though the service is not good, they're not friendly, they're not great.
Honestly, i'd rather have a tablet at my table and just type in my order and have it come, and i don't have to pay 20 more and i don't have to deal with a bad attitude or anything like that.
So i think like, do you really need some person to come to your table and say what do you want, when you can just have a tablet there?
I mean, I've already been in a lot of restaurants that do this, not just McDonald's.
There's a lot of restaurants that you do where you do order at your table.
Now, with some kind of tablet, that's going to increase and again, as the robotics get better drones of various kinds, not just the flying ones, but the ones that you know with wheels then it won't be too hard, I think, in the next few years, for the food to be brought to you by some kind of robot or drone or something.
So waiters, goodbye.
Waitresses, goodbye.
And as I said, for most standard food, you can probably have that done by robotics as well.
So it's not just sitting, I think.
There's a ton of, there are a ton of jobs that are at risk.
Great.
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Following you from the beginning.
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You help me a lot.
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Amina says, nice to see you as always.
English videos that are made by AI are good for learning English language.
Yes and no.
It depends.
It depends.
There's a ton.
There are a ton of AI videos all over YouTube, right?
Because I watch YouTube.
There's a few things I watch on YouTube.
And now, like in my suggestions, there's so many AI videos.
I don't like a lot of them because, again, as I said, you know, AI will always give you an answer.
But if the AI doesn't have the right answer, it'll just give you a wrong answer and pretend it's right.
This is the danger, okay?
And if you really know a topic, you'll see this all the time.
You ask it and it gives you some nonsense thing and it's like, what is this?
Isn't it not even close?
So there are a lot of videos like that too, where they have like.
For example, I got a bunch of suggestions about these AI videos on YouTube that are
Use Alan Watts' voice.
Alan Watts was an American, well, he was like a Zen monk.
He was one of the early people from America that went over to Japan and became a Buddhist.
But anyway, there are all these videos with him.
They use his voice.
It sounds exactly like him.
But it's AI and the speech that's in the video.
It's not him.
And it's just an AI creating these speeches, these Alan Watts speeches.
But it's not actually him.
And you can be tricked if you don't know Alan Watts.
You're like, you know, but there'll be little clues in it.
Like in the speech, he'll mention something that didn't exist when he was alive.
You know, like cell phones, right?
And you're like, wait a second.
This isn't Alan Watts.
He's talking, he mentioned cell phones.
He was alive in the 1960s.
There were no cell phones then. right so there's a lot of that garbage out there that i don't like now just in terms of learning like just for if you're just wanting english audio content i guess it's okay if you like it you know the pronunciation's okay there might be a few mistakes in there but the actual content i find is still i think it's better to listen to a human because with a human you will get a little bit more natural language because real humans don't just talk like a computer they actually pause they make sounds like they stop in the middle of a sentence and change their mind and then right that's what real conversations like in any language so I think it's still better to listen to real people if you just find the right people find people that you understand they're not talking too quickly it's not too difficult you could maybe use ai in those beginner stages just for vocab and listening and getting the basics of listening i think it'd be fine and then try to transition to real people so you start getting the real english not only idioms but even just the rhythm the pauses the those kind of things Yeah, DD Fitness, perfect.
I'm learning boiler maintenance and repair, and I also really like it.
At the beginning, my boss gave me so little money, but I insist on it and now I make money for myself.
See, that's a great example of a job, like a specific repair.
What are they called?
A trade, a skilled trade.
It's great.
I think you're in good shape.
You're in good shape.
You'll be okay.
Vladislav, good to see you.
Says, I missed the beginning again.
I guess I have to get used to you doing live shows again.
Yeah, I'm getting back on it.
And I'm doing them from Japan now, so I'm on a different time schedule than in Indiana.
We'll be in Japan until the summer.
Amina says, your videos are always comfortable because there's no music or noises, just you.
Yeah, exactly.
I don't like the background music.
Some videos, they always have background music playing, which I find distracting as well.
I don't like videos that do that.
And in general, I don't really like AI video content.
I just don't find it... I find it... It's not as accurate.
It's not as useful and it feels it all feels kind of the same to me, so i don't.
Maybe this is a goal for agenda 23.
It says uh, danilo miranda absolutely, it is 100 100, you know, replacing people with ai.
You know all these other You can look into it.
It's not good, but we have to deal with it.
It's like a natural disaster.
I just read an article recently and the guy was talking about all these bad, terrible changes of AI and just the general lessening freedom and greater tyranny and war and all this terrible stuff.
And he was pointing out.
But the problem is that we as individuals we really have no power to change it.
Know, voting does nothing.
It doesn't matter what you vote for they're, they do the same thing anyway, and certainly that's true in the united states.
So you know, he said you have to view it.
You view it like it's a natural disaster and you have to just adapt to it and survive it and or escape it if you can, as much as you can, and that's kind of how you have to see it and try not to get too upset about it, because it's just something.
That's it's.
These are potentially scary, negative things happening, but we don't, we can't control them.
So we what we can control is just our own reaction.
So fear really doesn't help, anger doesn't really help, even though we might not like it and we might have some fear and worry.
Those things don't help and don't want to get stuck in that.
You just have to improvise, adapt and overcome.
Right, as they say in the army, you got to just be able to be flexible.
Change, make changes in your life, get new skills so that you can survive and thrive and do well in the new environment.
Alex remus says do you have any idea how to upgrade it uh, effortless english your own site to prepare for the next period in modern history?
You know, I don't.
I think the good thing is I have always focused on speaking and listening face-to-face conversational language, real language, and then real communication, persuasion and human connection skills.
So that's good because I have never focused on just basic English.
I have never focused on the typical grammar translation stuff.
So the kind of English I teach and have always taught, that's going to still be necessary.
Basic translation is not necessary.
Basic English for travel, for example, I don't think is necessary at all anymore.
Google Translate is good enough on our cell phone. that if you're just trying to learn a language some people do it for fun but most of us don't so if you're just trying to use language to get around a little bit you can just use a you know translation app it's good enough if you're just trying to get hotels and order in the restaurants and move around and ask some basic questions it's you really don't need to spend all the hours and pain and difficulty of learning a language just to do that kind of thing well where the best use of your english focus is on real face-to-face uh conversation and communication connecting with real people and using it english in kind of high-skilled situations like for example presentations public speaking speaking at international conferences making negotiation sales you know communicating with international teams online maybe in webinars and web meetings and being a manager or a leader of international teams these kind of things yes because you know that there's it's more than just English you got to bring it people want that face-to-face connection they don't want you to be talking through an app while you do that So that is the kind of language in general, English especially, that is going to be continue to be useful.
But like the really basic stuff that people just learn in high school, where it's just like you know, how are you?
I'm fine.
And you?
And where's the train station?
And how much is that?
You know, the basic that just use an app, right?
Okay, Vladislav says, finally you returned to Japan.
Congratulations.
Yeah, a little behind schedule, but we're here.
Now we are continuing to live in America for various reasons, but we'll probably visit Japan every year, to maybe every year and a half.
And for fairly long visits, like five months, something like that.
So we're staying this time five and a half months for an extended visit.
It's nice to be back in our apartment and but in the summer we'll go back to Indiana and then come back here again.
It's kind of I kind of like that.
The only part is that the travel with kids is quite challenging.
It's a little more stressful and tiring, but uh, but the kid, it's also good for the kids, I think, that to see both countries and experience different places.
So yeah, nice.
Adi Tai says AJ.
I'm proud to tell you I think nowadays my English is great.
I have confidence to be an English speaker tutor because of you.
Thank you so much.
Great.
Hey, Adi, that's great.
Congratulations.
And it's great to see you again.
I know you've been on this channel for a long time.
And you know what?
Again, yes, that face to face.
It's kind of come back.
You know, again, it's just what we talked about.
If you're talking about language, how does language learning work?
Language you know, foreign language, learning english how does it?
How will it be affected by ai?
Right, and it's the same as the other things we talked about.
The power here of your english for for jobs and careers is combining it right, adding it to or combining it with some of these other skills.
So taking a good, high level of English, advanced English ability, real speaking, face-to-face ability, and then combine that with your job career, whatever it is.
Let's say healthcare, okay?
So you take English and then you combine it with being a doctor, right?
And then you take those two things and you combine that with using ai.
So, being skillful using ai, now you're starting to build a you know it's called a skill stack right, it's a combination of skills that make you uh, really a lot more desirable as an employee.
It gives you a lot more options.
I think it's gonna.
It will help your career so much more.
Just one of those things is probably, you know, may not be enough just being good at english okay, that's okay.
But a lot of people are just being a good doctor okay maybe, depending what kind of doctor you are.
If you're just a general practitioner though, that might not be enough.
Right, just being good at, you know, marketing and selling and persuasion, that's a great skill, but you know you need it, need to market something, you need to sell something, right.
But when you combine three skills together, like that, you've got great English ability face to face, and you combine that, you're also good at marketing and selling, and you can do it in English.
And you're also a doctor, and you're not just a normal doctor like everybody else, but you have some unique right, something that makes you different.
You're a doctor that specializes in certain athletes.
You're a doctor that focuses more on natural methods or nutrition and other things too.
Whatever.
You're a doctor who focuses on brain health.
And you combine.
You know one of those things is okay, but you combine the three of those together and then you use.
You're good at using AI to get more done and get more ideas and to analyze research and to be more creative.
Well, now you've stacked these four things together.
This makes you very different, quite special, quite excellent compared to most people.
You'll be fine.
Your career will be okay.
You're not going to, You're not going to starve.
You won't be unemployed.
You'll be fine.
Right?
It's the people who try to just keep doing what they've always done.
They're in trouble.
They are in trouble.
Like the teacher, let's say.
A teacher and they just think oh, I'll just keep going to my class and reading from the textbook and doing my tests and grading them.
And I'm just going to keep following the textbook and just doing what everyone else does.
They are in trouble, they don't realize it, they think they can do that.
Well, i've been doing this for 10 years and you know.
But those jobs are at huge risk and those people are in trouble because not only are their jobs at risk, but mentally they're not flexible, they're not creative, they're not willing to be different, they're afraid to be different.
So when they do lose their jobs, what are they going to do?
They're not going to be able to get another teaching job because Huge numbers of teaching jobs will be lost.
There'll be lots and lots and lots of people competing for fewer jobs.
And they're just the same as everybody else.
They are in big trouble.
Huge.
Bad.
This is true in all industries.
The people are just the same and just keep doing it like the old days.
And oh, i'll just go and do you know the minimum and what, what everybody's always done.
I'll just go teach from the textbook and teach basic grammar translation.
If you're an english teacher, oh man, they are in trouble.
So and that's true in all these different areas as well.
So don't do that.
Don't be the same as everybody else.
You gotta have the courage.
You have to be strong enough to take chances to be different.
You've got to find ways to be different and then combine these other skills and then do you.
Then you don't need to fear, you're going to be okay.
All right guys, i think that's it for me.
All right guys, lots of love to you.
I'm trying to keep my shows a little shorter so that i can do more of them, all right?
So just to recap you want to learn ai and get comfortable using it.
Try gabai or just try.
Don't just do one.
Don't just do chat gpt, try several of them and take some courses, if you need to, about using ai and prompting ai.
Be number two be excellent in your job, but be different, find different, something different that makes you different, special in your job, not like everybody else.
Number three If you're in a high-risk industry, then you should probably change careers, change to a different industry.
And then number four, take some of those skills we discussed and get good at them.
And skills need practice, so you should start now.
And combine them with those other things, and then you will be okay.
You will survive these job losses from AI and whatever else comes.
Okay, lots of love to you.
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That's different than what everyone else is doing.
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Actually think that's a key skill to have because you know, with all this change happening, people are gonna need to change jobs.
It's gonna you're probably not gonna be in the same company your whole life, okay.
You might not even be in the same company for for three years.
Okay, you probably have to keep changing.
You have to get good at marketing yourself and jumping to different companies and different positions within and in other companies also.
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I think that's super important.
I think that's a skill that everyone should have and be really good at.
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