Great piece, and we agree with your sentiment. Our worries are what happens to us humans when items such as "critical thinking," "problem solving" and "creativity" have all been outsourced to AI? What will remain of us? Typically, when we outsource a certain skill to technology, we, as a collective, lose that particular skill within a generation, sometimes faster.
"AI will simply be more efficient in extracting the gems from that well" is not the solution, its the problem. When we grow accepting, and then dependent on AI even by our best and brightest...well have reached our peak...whereas AI will be just begun. The struggle for knowledge, has to be first and foremost a struggle, not just sitting at the top of the moutain and admiring the view...its the struggle that gives it meaning and value. And when AI spits out an "answer", who knows what hidden dead ends, promising directions, interesting persuits, it took? Simply getting to the answer is a life long crutch. Its like doing your childs homework assignments for them! How do they learn without the struggle, the mistakes? They won't.
Agree with this, to a point. We as a society, at least in the US, seem obsessed with obtaining what we desire with as many short-cuts as possible. AI will facilitate this pursuit and a accelerate it. This will result in se fantastical outcomes and also perhaps tragic ones as well. One can hope that we learn to use these new tools with descretion and awareness of unintended consequences. It has been acknowledged by some that the journey to a discovery teaches as much as the discovery itself.
Great piece, and we agree with your sentiment. Our worries are what happens to us humans when items such as "critical thinking," "problem solving" and "creativity" have all been outsourced to AI? What will remain of us? Typically, when we outsource a certain skill to technology, we, as a collective, lose that particular skill within a generation, sometimes faster.
"AI will simply be more efficient in extracting the gems from that well" is not the solution, its the problem. When we grow accepting, and then dependent on AI even by our best and brightest...well have reached our peak...whereas AI will be just begun. The struggle for knowledge, has to be first and foremost a struggle, not just sitting at the top of the moutain and admiring the view...its the struggle that gives it meaning and value. And when AI spits out an "answer", who knows what hidden dead ends, promising directions, interesting persuits, it took? Simply getting to the answer is a life long crutch. Its like doing your childs homework assignments for them! How do they learn without the struggle, the mistakes? They won't.
Agree with this, to a point. We as a society, at least in the US, seem obsessed with obtaining what we desire with as many short-cuts as possible. AI will facilitate this pursuit and a accelerate it. This will result in se fantastical outcomes and also perhaps tragic ones as well. One can hope that we learn to use these new tools with descretion and awareness of unintended consequences. It has been acknowledged by some that the journey to a discovery teaches as much as the discovery itself.