Petri Kajander

A room from Airchat's 2023 version, recorded as a video. The room's name is the title; the transcript below follows the video, and every time in it plays the video from that point.

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0:00 The same thing has happened many, many times in the history. For example, when we were mainly having agricultural societies and a lot of people were just working on fields and then they were suddenly kicked out of them and going to the cities. And this is still the situation in China and some other places where a lot of people are looking for even the horrendous working conditions in the factories, but it's still better than what's in the countryside. So this has happened over and over again and it's not going to stop. And always we've been finding ways. And as long as we have creativity, as long as we have ideas, things we want to create and there's demand for whatever we come up with, we will provide the supply for those things.

0:50 And that's what's creating the value. Value is subjective. It's not about producing things. So... Um... It's like Friedman's Boston Dynamics CEO's interview. He talks about that even now, especially in Europe, I think he mentioned, it's very difficult to find adequate amount of people to work on logistics. It's just not possible to get the people there. So it's becoming a real issue. So the Boston Dynamics and other robots are going to take over those field work, and this was done before the tractors and other machines took it over. So the similar thing is not just happening. And I think it's just a really great thing. But obviously the transitory periods are hard for those who are not so fit to adapt to new cultures and technologies.

1:44 I'm not worried about kids at all. Like Diana mentioned, they're so quick to adapt to things. Even me, I'm not obviously a kid anymore, but just playing around with the AI and all these tools, it doesn't take many minutes or hours. It's like, okay, why can't you do this? And why are we going to do it that way? And oh, why this doesn't work yet? And oh, I have to do all this thing myself. So there's also this demographic thing that a lot of the population, at least in the West, is going to the wrong direction. We don't have new people coming, taking over the old jobs. So we're going to have a shortage of people soon. So the robots and the AI are not coming. So that is true as well.