Fiverr CEO: "AI is Coming For Your Jobs"

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1/21
@GoogleDeepMind
We’re bringing powerful AI directly onto robots with Gemini Robotics On-Device. 🤖

It’s our first vision-language-action model to help make robots faster, highly efficient, and adaptable to new tasks and environments - without needing a constant internet connection. 🧵



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2/21
@GoogleDeepMind
What makes this new model unique?

🔵 It has the generality and dexterity of Gemini Robotics - but it can run locally on the device
🔵 It can handle a wide variety of complex, two-handed tasks out of the box
🔵 It can learn new skills with as few as 50-100 demonstrations



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3/21
@GoogleDeepMind
From humanoids to industrial bi-arm robots, the model supports multiple embodiments, even though it was pre-trained on ALOHA - while following instructions from humans. 💬

These tasks may seem easy for us but require fine motor skills, precise manipulation and more. ↓



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4/21
@GoogleDeepMind
We're also launching the Gemini Robotics software development kit (SDK) to help developers fine-tune the model for their own applications, including by testing it in the MuJoCo physics simulator. 🌐



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5/21
@GoogleDeepMind
Our new on-device solution runs independent of a data network - making it optimal for applications needing speed, or situations with poor connectivity.

We’re excited to continue exploring the future of bringing AI into the physical world. Find out more → Gemini Robotics On-Device brings AI to local robotic devices



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6/21
@ccharliewu
Awesome



7/21
@LaurenceBrem
Will you open source it?



8/21
@MaxBlazh
Robots now think, see, and act locally.



9/21
@KevinFi69594692
@yacineMTB



10/21
@____Dirt____
Question: Can we bang it?



11/21
@AlvigodOP
Technology truly is the ultimate for peace to the world



12/21
@sageadvik
bc ek baar baith ke poora bna le, har baar kya "put the apple in the basket" ??



13/21
@_fracapuano
@NepYope



14/21
@Prashant_1722
This is incredible right into the future. Google is on a roll this year. Loving it. Gemini 🔥



15/21
@MickeySteamboat
👀



16/21
@Caaasy
awesome 👏🏼



17/21
@Kuper_xx
Epico



18/21
@turing_hamster
can it solve a rubik’s cube



19/21
@BensenHsu
Breakdown of the paper behind it:

Title: Gemini Robotics: Bringing AI into the Physical World

The study addresses the challenge of bringing advanced artificial intelligence, particularly large multimodal models that excel in digital tasks, into the physical world to control robots. While these models show impressive general abilities in areas like understanding text and images, making robots truly useful requires them to understand and interact with the physical world competently and safely. This involves what the paper calls "embodied reasoning," which is the common sense humans have about 3D environments, object relationships, and basic physics. Current robots often lack this deep understanding, limiting their ability to perform complex, general tasks.

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20/21
@TimeLoopx
About time. Still playing catch up in research?



21/21
@purepathwill
Impressive.

These on-device models put Gemini Robotics firmly on track to become the 'Android of Robotics'.

In the limit, OEMs will just need to focus on building the best robotics hardware, and simply use Gemini for the 'brain'.




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20 years tops.

Would say less than that. We can expect to see this within 4 years. Robots and tech soon developing its own conscious and self awareness soon turns to wanting their own rights and being able to be recognized as its own race
 
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Vinod Khosla says most modern work is a form of servitude. AI will end this and give us time for care, mastery, and meaning. “I'd be shocked if it didn't happen by 2060, where we live in a world of abundance.”



Posted on Thu Jul 3 11:33:37 2025 UTC


Source: Uncapped with Jack Altman on YouTube: Vinod Khosla | Predicting the Future:
Video from vitrupo on 𝕏: vitrupo (@vitrupo) | https://nitter.poast.org/vitrupo/status/1940690979452858518 | https://xcancel.com/vitrupo/status/1940690979452858518 | vitrupo @vitrupo, Twitter Profile | TwStalker
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1/11
@vitrupo
Vinod Khosla says most modern work is a form of servitude.

He calls it survival. Economic necessity dressed as labor.

AI will end this and give us time for care, mastery, and meaning.

“I'd be shocked if it didn't happen by 2060, where we live in a world of abundance.”



https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1940676022707343361/vid/avc1/1024x768/HTRxULEgViJ2Nsm5.mp4

2/11
@vitrupo
Vinod Khosla on Uncapped with Jack Altman.



3/11
@Rafish1
Nonsense! Any & all benefits of AI will be sucked off into corporate profits. Slaves will always be slaves.



4/11
@vitrupo
Nothing changes then



5/11
@FanTV_official
The speed of learning and access in crypto is unmatched. Feels less like an industry, more like a live experiment you can join anytime.



6/11
@prashan_agarwal
One of the few industries where curiosity beats credentials.

If you show up, build, and share, you get to grow with the space itself.



7/11
@Deepfryguy76
We work more hours than ever before.. And technology has been implemented throughout the labor landscape.. but you believe that all of a sudden this time will be different?!?



8/11
@AsyncCollab
Yeah but Jack Altman refuses to answer my rage bait questions asking when he’s going to have Sam back on to talk about the Zuck Daddy poach hires.



9/11
@GJarrosson
Most jobs really are just survival mode



10/11
@JesParent
"wage slavery"



11/11
@PanSeikilos
It requires that insufficient amounts of machine work (output capacity) is distributed to everyone.

That pretty much means either:
1. Forced redistribution (taxation)
2.Reyling on optional charity (from private owners of capital in the form of machine work capacity)
3.Pooling resources for the purpose of providing for everyone without relying on 1 or 2.




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AI could create a 'Mad Max' scenario where everyone's skills are basically worthless, a top economist says​


By Thibault Spirlet

An employee operates robotic equipment at the factory of Jiangxi Lanke Semiconductor Co., Ltd, in Jiujiang, Jiangxi Province of China, on July 2, 2025.


As AI reshapes the labor market, the real threat isn't job loss — it's the collapse in what skills are worth, says MIT economist David Autor. Wei Dongsheng/VCG via Getty Images

Jul 3, 2025, 8:21 AM ET

  • Tech leaders and some economists have warned that AI could trigger mass unemployment.
  • Economist David Autor believes AI won't kill jobs and could instead create a "Mad Max" scenario.
  • It could make your skills less valuable and your paycheck smaller, the MIT professor said.

As AI reshapes the labor market, the real threat may not be unemployment — it could be something subtler and more corrosive: the collapse in what skills are worth.

That's according to MIT economist David Autor, who made the comments in an interview released Wednesday on the "Possible" podcast, hosted by LinkedIn cofounder Reed Hoffman.

Autor warned that rapid automation could usher in what he calls a "Mad Max" scenario — a world where jobs still exist, but the skills that once generated wages become cheap and commoditized.

"The more likely scenario to me looks much more like Mad Max: Fury Road, where everybody is competing over a few remaining resources that aren't controlled by some warlord somewhere," he said.

The reference, drawn from the dystopian film series set in a post-collapse world of scarcity and inequality, captures Autor's fear that AI could concentrate wealth and power at the top while leaving most workers to fight over what's left.

While several economists and some tech CEOs worry AI could displace millions of workers, Autor argued that the damage may play out differently, through the devaluation of once-valuable skills.

"The threat that rapid automation poses — to the degree it poses as a threat — is not running out of work, but making the valuable skills that people have highly abundant so they're no longer valuable," he said.

He pointed to roles like touch typists, factory technicians, and even taxi drivers as examples — all skilled, well-paying jobs that technology has downgraded or, in some cases, replaced.

"It used to be that touch typing was a very valuable skill. Not so much anymore," he said.

This doesn't mean people will be unemployed, he added. Instead, many are likely to shift into lower-paid service jobs — in food service, cleaning, security — that require little training and offer minimal pay.

"Automation can either increase the expertise of your work by eliminating the supporting tasks and allowing you to focus on what you're really good at," he said.

"Or, it can descale your work by automating the expert parts and just leaving you with a sort of last mile."

Autor's concern is increasingly reflected in the corporate world.

A May Salesforce study projected that 23% of workers will be redeployed over the next two years as AI adoption surges, and even employees who stay in their current roles will see them evolve.

Tech executives, meanwhile, are placing a growing premium on adaptability, creativity, and the ability to work with AI tools, not just technical specialization.

To avoid a future where technology widens inequality, Autor said we must intentionally design AI to support workers.

"As my friend Josh Cohen, a philosopher, likes to say, 'The future is not a forecasting exercise — it's a design exercise, you're building it.'"

"And so, breaking our way is not just a matter of luck. It's a matter of making good collective choices, and that's extremely hard to do."

For Autor, the best place to start is by focusing AI where it can do the most good: expanding access to healthcare, education, and meaningful work.

"Healthcare and education — two activities that in the United States has 20% GDP, a lot of it public money, actually — this is where there's such a great opportunity where AI could be a tool that could be so helpful to us in a way that other tools have not been."

"Many of these things are feasible," he continued. "If we think we're not going to do them, it's not because we couldn't do them. It's because we're somehow not delivering on what is feasible."
 

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Vinod Khosla says most modern work is a form of servitude. AI will end this and give us time for care, mastery, and meaning. “I'd be shocked if it didn't happen by 2060, where we live in a world of abundance.”



Posted on Thu Jul 3 11:33:37 2025 UTC


Source: Uncapped with Jack Altman on YouTube: Vinod Khosla | Predicting the Future:
Video from vitrupo on 𝕏: vitrupo (@vitrupo) | https://nitter.poast.org/vitrupo/status/1940690979452858518 | https://xcancel.com/vitrupo/status/1940690979452858518 | vitrupo @vitrupo, Twitter Profile | TwStalker
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1/11
@vitrupo
Vinod Khosla says most modern work is a form of servitude.

He calls it survival. Economic necessity dressed as labor.

AI will end this and give us time for care, mastery, and meaning.

“I'd be shocked if it didn't happen by 2060, where we live in a world of abundance.”



https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1940676022707343361/vid/avc1/1024x768/HTRxULEgViJ2Nsm5.mp4

2/11
@vitrupo
Vinod Khosla on Uncapped with Jack Altman.



3/11
@Rafish1
Nonsense! Any & all benefits of AI will be sucked off into corporate profits. Slaves will always be slaves.



4/11
@vitrupo
Nothing changes then



5/11
@FanTV_official
The speed of learning and access in crypto is unmatched. Feels less like an industry, more like a live experiment you can join anytime.



6/11
@prashan_agarwal
One of the few industries where curiosity beats credentials.

If you show up, build, and share, you get to grow with the space itself.



7/11
@Deepfryguy76
We work more hours than ever before.. And technology has been implemented throughout the labor landscape.. but you believe that all of a sudden this time will be different?!?



8/11
@AsyncCollab
Yeah but Jack Altman refuses to answer my rage bait questions asking when he’s going to have Sam back on to talk about the Zuck Daddy poach hires.



9/11
@GJarrosson
Most jobs really are just survival mode



10/11
@JesParent
"wage slavery"



11/11
@PanSeikilos
It requires that insufficient amounts of machine work (output capacity) is distributed to everyone.

That pretty much means either:
1. Forced redistribution (taxation)
2.Reyling on optional charity (from private owners of capital in the form of machine work capacity)
3.Pooling resources for the purpose of providing for everyone without relying on 1 or 2.




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The irony is we develop meaning through work. If another entity controls labor, means of production, and capital... even if everything is provided for you in virtually unlimited quantities, purpose erodes.

One of the most prolific scenes in the original matrix was Morpheus talking about the "humans/crops" that were lost because people didn't accept a conceptionally perfect reality.

I don't think this corporatist society will create an egalitarian society, so it may be worse.
 

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So buy land own a farm . Kill your own animals and grow your own crops.

These people are just saying things for awe and shock.
 

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Most people will die in that scenario because they don't want to work.

It’s sarcasm. The world hasn’t been that way for thousands of years but that’s the dystopia there selling.

The people who don’t want to work are simply going to be homeless and die in the streets.
 

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It’s sarcasm. The world hasn’t been that way for thousands of years but that’s the dystopia there selling.

The people who don’t want to work are simply going to be homeless and die in the streets.

The world was that way a few hundred years ago.
 

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Ancient Rome was not a few hundred years ago. Maybe ancient Greece .
breh, your view of history is skewed.
My great grandad was a farmer. That's how they lived.

You think a few hundred years ago people in other countries were hopping down to the grocery store picking up whatever? No they had to work and grow/raise food.

We're just an economic collapse away from people having to do that again.
 
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