Keeping Competitive

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Next, we will tackle the new question: How can human job applicants remain competitive over their AI rivals? We have more on this topic in our next report.

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Members of Tech Shop in the United States make their own creations using welding equipment or computer-guided cutters. In Germany, open-access workshops are thriving, which lend startups expensive equipment such as 3D printers and water jet cutters. This is an era when anyone can produce goods and services with the help of AI devices. The value of original creative ideas is shooting up. At the age of seven, American girl Sylvia Todd created a robotic watercolor painter using an open-source design and a prototyping platform called Arduino. People were fascinated by this idea. Online sales of the painting robot amounted to over 58,700 U.S. dollars in just two weeks. Until now, Korean education values the capability to learn what already exists and solve problems within a time limit. But that's a sector at which AI devices perform better than humans. However, machines cannot replace humans when it comes to understanding what other people want and cooperating with them.

[Soundbite] Son Ju-eun(President, Educational Company) : "Many futurologists predict that people with the capability to facilitate hearty communications with other people will have more job opportunities and jobs requiring such capability will grow more important."

Competent workers needed for the age of the fourth industrial revolution cannot be nurtured in a way where creativity is considered something that can be taught at private tutoring institutes. Experts agree on the need to reform education in order to prepare for the technological changes ahead.