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AI vs. Human Connection: Will Robots Take Over? #shorts

A speaker responds to Elon Musk's picture of a future where robots do all the work. The clip explains why the speaker expects people's need for human interaction to hold for a long time yet.

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The speaker recalls watching an Elon Musk interview in which, as the speaker describes it, Musk said robots would do all the work for us and there would be a utopia where people get a minimum wage.

The speaker does not see that happening for a long, long time, because humans are humans. Even this podcast is a human interaction that people find interesting to watch, and so are movies. We are fundamentally social creatures, the speaker says, and that need is not going away.

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I was watching Elon Musk interview. It was 3 weeks ago and I watched it on the weekend. And he thinks that the, you know, these robots are going to be doing all the work for us and there's going to be a utopia where we get a minimum wage and you know, they're doing all the work for us. I don't see that for a long, long time because humans are humans. I mean, we even just this interaction on this podcast is a human interaction. That's interesting for other people to observe. That's when we watch movies, we're watching human interaction, right? >> Yeah. >> We need that human interaction. We're fundamentally social creatures and that need is not going to go away.