A Conversation Starter, by Jamie

mmm if knowledge becomes abundant and automated, the value of learning shifts.
Not toward memorising facts, but toward cultivating the things AI can’t outsource for us: discernment, perspective, taste, courage, the ability to sit with ambiguity, the ability to choose what we stand for.

Maybe the point of learning now is less about ‘how to do the thing’ and more about ‘how to be the kind of person who can navigate a world where the thing is always changing.'

AI might handle the execution. We still have to handle the meaning.

AI is a tool, a powerful one, but still a tool. As humans, we can decide how it can best serve us. I appreciate Lani's point about what we can't outsource. And we can learn whatever we want. Just like we still value the handmade in a time when cheap, factory made items are readily available, we can still value knowledge for its beauty and significance.

And, as my dad use to say, always know what to do when the power goes out. AI fails sometimes, we've seen that many times. Even as we hand over tasks to AI, we still need to know how the process of whatever we're asking AI to do works so we can judge the outcome and make sure it serves its purpose in the best possible way. Humans still need to take responsibility for making sure the system is working in the way it was intended.

Somehow this feels like a riddle inside a riddle...after all, the reason that AI can ostensibly figure out an investing plan for us now or do the actual investing for us in a few years is because humans have learned enough to reach this point in the first place. If we stop learning, we stop teaching AI, don't we? I mean, at a certain point, won't it be analyzing the same information over and over and over? Maybe I'm just being stubborn. Because instinctively, I just don't see AI being able to generate it's own intelligence. Humans, on the other hand, seem wired for novelty and what is learning if not novelty?

The most interesting thought I encountered ln thisis that AI will trump „how to do things“, but not „what to do“. What to build and develop. Human creativity has and will always find a way. Just think of the time washing machines entered the household… Saved so much time. do we all now sit around and wonder what to do with all our time we dont need to wash, plow the field, vacuum (think roomba 😃). I dont think so…