AI & the New Age of Learning
AI will magnify the already great difference in knowledge between the people who are eager to learn and those who aren't.
But as I started reporting more on AI and automation, the message I heard from experts about the modern economy was, essentially, the exact opposite. These experts said that, in a highly automated economy, the most valuable skills and abilities were the ones that could distinguish workers from machines. Rather than treating ourselves as pieces of b... See more
Kevin Roose • Futureproof: 9 Rules for Humans in the Age of Automation
To thrive in that world, the skills that matter most are:
- Deep familiarity with the tools
- Staying abreast of changes
- Developing a great intuition for AI tools, where things are going, and how to make use of it
- Resilience and the ability to learn things fast and evolve yourself with technology
- Deep familiarity with the tools
- Staying abreast of changes
- Developing a great intuition for AI tools, where things are going, and how to make use of it
- Resilience and the ability to learn things fast and evolve yourself with technology
Rowan Cheung • Tweet
LeCun points to four essential characteristics of human intelligence that current AI systems, including LLMs, can’t replicate: reasoning, planning, persistent memory, and understanding the physical world. He stresses that LLMs’ reliance on textual data severely limits their understanding of reality: “We’re easily fooled into thinking they are intel... See more
Azeem Azhar • 🧠 AI’s $100bn question: The scaling ceiling
If A.I. is as powerful a tool as its proponents claim, they should be able to find other uses for it besides intensifying the ruthlessness of capital.