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  • (dramatic music)

  • - Bartenders are now being replaced by machines

  • so who better to talk about that then Andrew Yang,

  • and to have him try our crazy creation, Giant's Milk.

  • It's a whole bottle of Goldschlager,

  • a whole bottle of vodka.

  • Followed by a bottle of Fireball and a bottle of Hennessy.

  • Then you've got a bottle of Godiva White Chocolate,

  • a bottle of RumChata, a bottle of Bailey's,

  • a bottle of Kahlua.

  • This is a potent mix based on Game of Thrones.

  • Andrew, I hope you like it; let's talk automation.

  • So I have Andrew Yang over, okay,

  • presidential candidate.

  • I know you're a Game of Thrones fan,

  • - Yes I am.

  • - So I created this drink called Giant's Milk.

  • - Even after the last season, still a fan.

  • - Why though?

  • - It entertained us. I mean, it didn't end on

  • the greatest note but come on, it was awesome, overall.

  • - It was awesome up until last season, though.

  • - It was better before the last season.

  • (laughs)

  • - Okay, this season--

  • - And then we all needed a drink.

  • - Okay, you ready?

  • - We'll all be, "Let me re-write that season in my mind."

  • With some booze. - (laughs)

  • - You ready to try Giant's Milk?

  • - Oh, this is actually very appropriate.

  • Giant's Milk - Cheers.

  • Straight out of Game of Thrones.

  • (thump, thump)

  • - What'd you think?

  • - Ah, I feel bigger already.

  • - You like it?

  • Yeah, - (laughs)

  • I feel great.

  • - Okay, so, let me get into what I want to ask you.

  • In Las Vegas right now you have machines moving in

  • and bartenders--

  • - Yeah, we do.

  • Are being automated away.

  • - Now this sounds like science fiction but MGM just

  • replaced hundreds of it's bartenders in all their casino's

  • in Las Vegas with robots.

  • - Uh huh.

  • - And you just go and you tell it what drink to make

  • and it does its robot arms shaka-shaka-shaka and

  • it's a bit of a spectacle.

  • - Oh, right.

  • - And it serves the drink to you.

  • And why did they do this?

  • To save money because if you think about hundreds

  • of salaries and benefits for these bartenders,

  • they did the math and they said a robot is going

  • to do the same job and it's going to pay for itself

  • over time.

  • So this is, you can look it up.

  • - Uh huh.

  • - You can just Google that.

  • - So, but that tells me something.

  • That tells me that in 30 years, okay, because if MGM

  • did it, right, I know that tomorrow Cheesecake Factory's

  • going to do it.

  • TGI Friday's is going to do it, Olive Garden's going

  • to do it, Red Lobster's going to do it.

  • So that tells me 30 years from today there are no more

  • human bartenders.

  • Would you agree with that?

  • - There will be human bartenders but they will be

  • not in the big chains because the big chains

  • will have the money.

  • If you think about your Mom and Pop bar on the corner,

  • like they're not going to get a bartending robot

  • but to your point, after MGM does it, are the

  • other casino's going to do it?

  • Yes.

  • Are the restaurant chains going to do it?

  • Yes, and the sad truth of it is that customers

  • kind of enjoy watching the robot arms do their thing.

  • - I know, that's the thing, it worked!

  • Because people, bartenders always thought,

  • "You know, no one wants to get a drink from a robot."

  • Apparently that is not true, they frickin' love it.

  • - Yeah, it's-- - (laughs)

  • It's brutally true. Cause I grew up watching Cheers

  • and, you know, the rest of it and it's like you think

  • of a bartender as like a companion or a consigliere

  • or a sounding board.

  • But now it's just robot arms making that drink.

  • - What other jobs do you see 30 years from today

  • that won't be here?

  • Because I know people in college right now taking subjects

  • that I, don't do it, that's a waste of time.

  • By the time you graduate that will be non-existent.

  • - Yeah, there are many jobs that unfortunately are

  • in the midst of getting replaced by machines and

  • technology right now.

  • Call center workers, when you call a customer service

  • line it's going to be software that sounds like this,

  • "Hey, Sky, how you doing?"

  • - I know, I've heard-- - "What can I do for you?"

  • I've heard stuff like that before.

  • - Yeah, and right now that software is terrible and

  • you're just like, "zero, zero, human, human, human,

  • get me a human" but in two or three years

  • you're not going to be able to tell the difference.

  • So, that's going to go away.

  • Driving a truck or a car for a living.

  • They're making cars and trucks that can drive themselves

  • and that's the most common job in 29 states.

  • Food service, over time. If you go into a fast food

  • restaurant you can see self serve kiosks in most

  • of the locations now, at this point, and it's going

  • to go to the back of the house cause they can actually

  • do a lot of the assembling of food.

  • - Back of the house, he means like in the kitchen

  • where you guys don't see. - In the kitchen, yeah.

  • - Right now, they are placed in the front of the house

  • so that you just go beep, boop, boop and like the food

  • comes out to you.

  • Now their migrating to the back of the house and it's

  • not just these manual jobs, it's also accounting,

  • being a lawyer.

  • - Okay, so right there, don't become an account,

  • don't become a lawyer.

  • Is that what you're saying?

  • - I would definitely say don't become a lawyer

  • because I did that job for five and a half months--

  • - (laughs)

  • - and not only can you automate away that job but

  • it's also not a good time.

  • But you can automate, I mean, artificial intelligence

  • can already look at contracts and documents more quickly

  • and accurately then a human.

  • - Oh, wow, I didn't even know that one.

  • - Yeah, that's on.

  • - So, okay, so I'm a 18-year-old, 20-year-old

  • undecided about what I want to do with my future, right?

  • - Yep.

  • - Like, what jobs will be here 30 years from now that

  • makes sense studying because if you, I would, because

  • most people would say, "Learn the code."

  • but I've already seen YouTube videos of A.I. doing

  • basic coding.

  • - A.I. can do basic coding.

  • - Exactly, and if A.I.'s doing basic coding today,

  • by the time you graduate imagine how good that will be.

  • - Yeah, and that's one of the things that frustrates me,

  • honestly, learning to code.

  • One, that's not realistic for a lot of people.

  • Two, a lot of people don't want to learn to code

  • and three, software is going to be able to code in

  • many environments faster and more accurately then humans.

  • So, what I'd advise an 18-year-old, aside form staying

  • sober, just kidding, (laughs) - (laughs)

  • is, one, try and figure out what you actually enjoy doing.

  • It sounds kind of cliche but if you enjoy doing something,

  • the odds of your being good at it are much, much higher.

  • Two, put yourself in a position to continuously learn

  • from other people because it's this team-oriented

  • type of work that's going to be more and more

  • in demand in the future.

  • - That stuff never goes out of style and frankly, we're

  • getting less good at training people to be good team

  • players and so if you're a good team player it's actually

  • super valuable.

  • Whether, and I one of the things I love is, I love

  • entrepreneurship; something like you're doing here.

  • It's tremendous.

  • If you can create your own opportunities, that's ideal.