[Comprehensive] "labor shortage" to pull artificial intelligence? The wage earners will not work in the end

A few days ago, he met an investor who was concerned about artificial intelligence. He hatched and invested in many artificial intelligence startup companies and completed multiple rounds of financing.

Speaking of why he is optimistic about this field, his logic is simple and rude: Now that China's labor costs are too high, it is forcing technological development and artificial intelligence to reduce labor costs. The higher the labor cost, the more booming the artificial intelligence industry will have.

It sounds absurd, but it makes sense to think carefully. Although artificial intelligence is still referred to as artificially retarded by many people, the labor shortage faced by the South Plant and the use of a large number of robots have indicated problems.

The news that is widely circulating today is that every day express delivery of Shanghai Pudong Jianye Station has been started 20 days after the Spring Festival, and 10 couriers have returned only 3 jobs, resulting in a large number of sites.

The same situation also occurred in Shentong. The Morning News reported that there are more than 120 couriers in Shentong Express Co., Ltd., and nearly 40 couriers have not returned to their posts after the Spring Festival this year. The normal operation of this network requires 12 cart drivers. Today, only 7 trucks are returned.

"The loss of couriers this year is double that of previous years," said the person in charge of Shentong Express Luojing.

In Beijing, many industries have also felt this pressure. Whether it is express delivery or take-away, people are faced with a shortage of people, even leading to a substantial increase in the cost of takeaway delivery. This aspect is related to the restriction of foreign population. On the other hand, due to the dissatisfaction with income, migrant workers are accelerating their return to the third and fourth line.

In the south, labor shortages in Dongguan and Shenzhen have continued for many years. According to the 21st Century Business Herald, the current "after-60s" and "after-90s" migrant workers are no longer willing to work in the province, which directly leads to the lack of skilled workers in the eastern coastal areas.

Statistics from the National Bureau of Statistics show that from the end of 2012 to the end of 2015, the proportion of migrant workers going out of the city has decreased year-on-year, with growth rates of 3.0%, 1.7%, 1.3%, and 0.4% respectively.

A migrant worker who had worked in Shunde, Guangdong Province, spoke of his definition of “good work”: a wage of not less than 8,000 yuan, including food and shelter, and a one and a half day off week.

This income expectation, the general manufacturing companies and even the service industry are difficult to meet, can only encourage companies to change the cost structure.

A large number of call centers began to introduce dialogues between voice robots and customers; factories began to reduce the use of labor, used robots to work, and maintained and acquired data through the Internet of Things; artificial intelligence began to replace stenographers and doctors for diagnosis.

Especially logistics and express delivery, this particularly labor-intensive industry, combined with artificial intelligence is very necessary, and it is a good thing to liberate human beings from this simple transportation work.

You see, Amazon and Jingdong all combine technology with everything from warehousing to distribution, and drone distribution is not impossible in the future.

Artificial intelligence comes. What about humans?

At least for now, do not worry too much about working people who can't find a job. Statistics show that in 2016, Sichuan Province added 71,000 migrant workers to start their own businesses, established 18,000 enterprises, and achieved an output value of 14.05 billion yuan.

You see, there are innovation and entrepreneurship, there are more than 20 provinces 45 trillion fixed assets investment. The wage earners will not work this time. What about the next one?