America wants jobs but to get them, workers will have to compete with machines. But, robots and artificial intelligence won't be able to do every job there is. Jobs that are not repetitive and require common sense will be needed to be filled by humans while robots will be taking care or the jobs that require you to stand all day packing boxes.
Theoretical Physicist, Michio Kaku , says "There are huge gaps in what robots can do. Robots have very bad eyesight, they see lines, circle, squares, but they don't understand that these lines, circles, squares make up a face or a chair or a cup."
Kaku also continues to say that pattern recognition is one of the big problems when it comes to machines. A second problem when it comes to machines and jobs is common sense. "Robots don't understand the simplest things about human behavior. Robots don't know that water is wet, or that strings can pull, but not push."
With these in mind, Kaku states that the (repetitive) jobs that will disappear will be in regards to blue collar workers, the automobile and textile industry and among white collar workers, middlemen, low-level accountants, bookkeepers, agents and tellers will disappear.
But on the other hand, non-repetitive jobs such as garbagemen, sanitation workers, gardeners, police, and construction workers will thrive. In the white collar world, workers who engage in intellectual capitalism will thrive. Intellectual capitalism involves common sense: creativity, imagination, leadership, analysis, telling a joke, writing a script or book, doing science, and so on
"England derives more revenue from rock music than coal. We're moving from a commodity based capital, like coal, to intellectual capital like rock and roll," says Michio Kaku.